Scrum Impediments

Impediments in Agile are a form of waste. 

• The scrum master's responsibility is to identify the impediments and help remove. 
• SM gets into picture when the impediments are beyond the ability of the team.
• Everyone within the team identifies impediments.

Examples of impediments (leanagiletraining.com):

1. Blockers of user stories

2. People issues

3. Unskilled resources in team

4. Technical issues

5. Lack of knowledge

6. Operational issues

7. Managerial / organizational issues

8. Process issues

9. Disruptions

10. Business / customer issues

11. Etc.