In the second pass, the product owner lets the impediments in, one at a time. For this pass, invite the team to join the party. Together, they may find that some impediments are truly hard technical dependencies and cannot be moved. If so, perhaps a lesser-value story needs to get done before the higher-value one. Almost anything else, though, falls into the category of “We’d like to help you, but...,” which signals that the company simply doesn’t value the product highly enough to remove the impediment or that the cost of removing the impediment outweighs the benefit.
