Comments on: Impediments (and where to find them)

By: Gunther

Gunther — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:55:02 +0000

Jan, thanks for sharing this.
You do honestly want to help the team. Why not share your concerns with them? Think about sustainable help. Isn’t that increasing self-organization? What can a Scrum Master do to help the team itself get the understanding you refer to, like by more effectively using the Daily Scrum or the Sprint Retrospective, or engineering standards and the Definition of Done?
Some small remarks: a Scrum Master doesn’t feel like an outsider, but a member of the Scrum Team; with a specific accountability however, i.e. the application of the Scrum framework but not ‘progress’.

By: Jan K.

Jan K. — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:41:01 +0000

Sometimes a team is so focused that it cannot see the impediment from a higher abstract level. They would need a facilitator (scrum master) to guide them towards a solution. Also, it happens that a team does not see it has a problem, simply because they things may appear to be OK but in fact they are not (eg code quality, teamwork). In Scrum there is a learning curve, and although this is a responsibility of the development team, the scrum master is the outsider who can monitor progress from a distance. Impediments may not always be obvious or tangible. So, in my opinion,a scrum master can act pro-active in finding impediments

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