Impediment Impact Diagrams Understanding the impact of impediments in agile teams and organizations

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Impediment categories

Satir Interaction Model

Intake: identifying problemsMeaning :understanding impedimentsSignificance: priority impedimentsResponse : consider countermeasures to remove the impediment

“What?” (What are the impediments to flow?) “So What?” (So, what is the significance of the impediments?).

• Time Needed : 20-30 minutes• Step:– Intoduction– Prepared Impediment Impact Diagram– are going to do this in two rounds, in silence

A1 Program Managers

The group ended up creating two lists of impediments after the activity. 1. The first was a prioritized list of impediments that are in their control to remove. 2. The second was a prioritized list of impediments that they need to engage with other people to remove.

A2.1 Scrum Team / A2.2Group of Scrum Teams

The Scrum team was in a Sprint retrospective, and they had identified a large quantity of impediments.

B Leadership Team

• The group identified 91 distinct impediments that were categorized.

• The group reported that this gave them a way to begin to understand how to manage the large volume of impediments,

• Understanding Impediments• Aid to Organizational Learning• Understanding Systemic Issues• Finding the Difference that Makes a Difference

RELATED WORK

1. Force-Field Analysis2. Affinity Grouping3. Silent Grouping4. Landscape Diagram5. Stakeholder Theory

FUTURE WORK

• Cultural analysis• Effect on organization culture.• Using Landscape Diagrams• Effect on team performance.• Effect on team velocity

CONCLUSIONS

It helps teams and organizations to understand who they need to influence in order to remove specific impediments.