Cause removal of obstacles
Short feedback loops allow Scrum Teams to improve their ability to deliver value to customers. An effective Scrum Team can be more efficient in their delivery by managing their flow of work as described in the Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams. Blockers, obstacles and other impediments inhibiting their ability to get early and often customer feedback will ultimately cause the team to struggle to keep up with the competitor and market trends. For a team to be effective it is important to minimize anything that hinders them from delivering value. These hindrances could be anything from non-value added meetings, context switching, hand-offs and manual work.
A Scrum Master can help the team manage their flow of work by identifying and removing non-value added work to shorten their time to market and increase their ability to innovate (as described in the Key Value Areas of the Evidence-Based Management framework). Keep in mind, however, that while it’s helpful to remove waste, ultimately nothing is more wasteful than building things that no one wants. Observe the alignment between the Scrum Team’s work and their goals and the problems they are trying to solve for the customer and remove communication barriers between the team and stakeholders.
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