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Removing impediments

Last post 08:41 am July 15, 2024 by Anand Balakrishnan
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Jhon Grados Vasquez
08:41 pm July 14, 2024

The Scrum Master is responsible or accountable for removing impediments, or should they take a neutral stance and merely facilitate alternatives for the team to remove these impediments, aiming for self-organization ?

Ian Mitchell
06:10 am July 15, 2024

The Scrum Guide says that the Scrum Master coaches team members to self-manage, and causes the removal of impediments. So the more impediment removal is caused by self-management, the better.

Anand Balakrishnan
08:41 am July 15, 2024

The Scrum Master is responsible or accountable for removing impediments, or should they take a neutral stance and merely facilitate alternatives for the team to remove these impediments, aiming for self-organization ?

The question is Can the Scrum master solve the impediment all by himself without the teams help? Probably not.

Like @Ian mentioned SM should coach the team to self-manage and remove impediments. For inter team dependencies/impediments the SM may have facilitate some meetings with the concerned stake holders and help the teams communicate.

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