Agile development teams continuously strive to improve their production processes. However, certain impediments may reduce the value produced, thus slowing down the development process. Impediments are factors that prevent the Development Team from producing useful software in a Sprint or impede the team from achieving its intrinsic goals. The Scrum Master's main role is to remove all impediments that prevent the Development team from moving forward. Given the self-organizing nature of the team, the Scrum Master should assist the team in trying to solve their own problems. Or better still, prevent obstacles from becoming impediments. There are many types of impediments that may arise, as you can see below.

• Illness among the team members


• Unforeseen changes team composition


• Tool issues for the Development Team


• Lack of skilled personnel


• Supplier issues


• Product owner's absence


• Unnecessary meetings for the Development Team


• Restrictions on teamwork.


• Conflict among team members, etc.