Chapter 3 In the Soup

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. . . in which team members discuss things that are outside their power to change, and the facilitator helps them focus their energy on what they can change and accept what they cannot change

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The team is now really comfortable with retrospectives, and Sarah is happy about this progress. They have had many discussions and conducted many experiments, and the team can see cooperation, code quality, and overall happiness increasing over time. At the last two retrospectives, alas, the team ended up choosing to discuss the missing test framework. When they dot-vote, this issue is always voted as the most important problem ...

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