You can’t just raise blockers and let them sit there. Makes sense right? But how often do we let impediments linger for days, weeks, months?
Or raise a critical performance issue in retrospective, and then do exactly nothing about it?
Scrum dictates that we must raise blockers and ‘do betters’, but doesn’t teach us how to aggressively - even ruthlessly - attack them. You need to teach teams had a storm around a problem
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Write for the wastebasket.
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Set a time limit.
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Let people flock to the problems that matter to them.
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Don't solve the entire problem… Come up with 3 to 5 next steps that will move you closer to solution.
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Be willing to fail.