Public Impediments – Toronto March 2014

Here are the issues this group thought were important.  Many are ‘issues’ in a waterfall model.  The list is not in order of priority, nor necessarily impediments in an Agile model.  Some are vague to us (stated in too few words), but I think they knew what they really meant.  Maybe one or two is expressed in a way I would not use.

1. Management apathy
2. Unclear goals
3. Too much process
4. Changing requirements
5. Insufficient people
6. Work overloaded
7. Large team
8. Redundant skill set
9. Internal competition
10. Single out individuals
11. Late request
12. Project cancelled
13. Newly formed team
14. Distributed
15. More layers (different teams)
16. Too many scope creeps
17. Not enough executive engagement
18. Not good leadership
19. Delays from vendor
20. Not enough knowledge in team to solve issues
21. Tasks not properly assigned to team members
22. Didn’t allocate enough time for unknowns
23. Team was told what / when
24. Management and Execs painting a different picture
25. Blame / “steamrolling”
26. Forced to “report” waterfall way
27. No clear product owner

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