What is impediment in Agile?
Impediment is anything that is slowing down the Team. It is a kind of issue. And it may include risks as well, but typically only high probability risks that are likely to occur fairly soon.
Some types of impediments:
- Blockers (for a user story)
- People issues
- We (anyone on the Team) is not skilled or knowledgeable enough
- Technical issues
- Lack of knowledge
- Less than perfect skill (in one area)
- Operational issues
- Managerial Issues
- Organizational issues
- Process issues