Tips to Scrum Master on removing impediments
One of the important duty of a Scrum Master is to remove impediments to the Development Team’s progress. This is correct and must be followed and here are some tips on doing this effectively During development sprint, team need clarity on the design from Architect who may not be co-located, this can become a potential impediment if clarification does not come on time from architect. In such cases, Scrum Master should advise the team member to draft the clarification with his/her thoughts on tackling it rather than just looking for Architect's guidance. This will help Team member to evolve his thinking and at the same time this will help Architect the respond fast as he/she will have some ideas. 2. During development sprint, testing member raises bugs/issues which they realize when they get the build to test from development. This can become a potential blocker to completion of the story as this has come late in the game. In such cases, Scrum Master should try