100 Impediments

This summary sheet includes 100 impediments (PDF) you may run into (though hopefully not all at once:). [Chinese version PDF or link; translation courtesy of Dandi Wong & Junpeng Ji].

I was inspired to start this list years ago from an article by Barry Boehm (which I’ve since lost and can’t even find a reference for it).

I’ve found these articles that address impediments, and you may find their perspective useful as well:

• James, Michael. “A ScrumMaster’s Checklist”
  http://www.scrummasterchecklist.org/pdf/scrummaster_checklist09.pdf
  (Not a list of impediments, but anything you can’t check may represent one.)
• Perry, Tom. “Classifying Impediments”
  http://agiletools.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/classifying-impediments/
• Perry, Tom. “Defining Impediments”
  http://agiletools.wordpress.com/2009/02/21/defining-impediments/
• Shalloway, Alan. “Lean Anti-Patterns”
  http://www.netobjectives.com/files/anti-patterns-table.pdf
• Wake, Bill. “100 Impediments”
  http://xp123.com/articles/100-impediments

[August, 2009.]