Treating Impedimentia
Add to calendarEver get to the end of a daily stand-up and realize there weren’t any impediments…for the fifth day in a row? You and your team could be suffering from impedimentia: a consistent inability to see impediments.
Don’t despair! There is a cure! This tutorial will gently guide you and fellow impedimentia sufferers through exercises designed to restore your natural ability to see the impediments that are all around you. There are no creams, balms or pills required! Just the simple application of some easy to use techniques that help overcome incipient impediment blindness.
Introduction - 5 min Exercise: Identifying Team Impediments - 5 min Examples of Impediments - brainstorming - 5 min Lesson 1 - a story about discovering impediments - 10 min Exercise: Explore your inner perfectionist - 5 min Lesson 2 - a story about accountability - 10 min Aggressive Accountability - brainstorming - 5 min Impediment tracking - 5 min Scaling Impediment Management - 5 min Impediments and Continuous Improvement - 5 min Exercise: Learning to See - 15 min Summary and Wrap up - 10 min
Materials: Slide deck can be found here: http://agiletools.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/impediment-hunting.pdf
- Learn simple techniques to help you easily identify impediments in your life and on your team.
- Review techniques to help you manage and track the impediments that you encounter.
- Gather new ideas for how you can use impediments to support continuous improvement for you and your team.
