Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Seeing impediments without blame


Scrum, Kanban, and Toyota Kata.  I’m struck at the similar effect each has of making it safe to talk about impediments, even sensitive ones.  We focus on the Scrum, Kanban or Toyota Kata framework, the framework brings the impediment front and center, and we address what is obvious to everyone.  The impediment may be virtually anything; a person, a coveted process, a product defect, insufficient training, or even a HiPPO idea.  Whatever it is, everyone sees the impediment.  To mitigate or not are both options.  To ignore is not.

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