Chapter 8 Political Vote

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. . . in which the team members wait until the last moment to vote in order to game the system, and the facilitator finds a way to make the voting system more fair

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Sarah wants to use the retrospective as an opportunity to discuss how the team values the quality of their work. This subject is somewhat delicate, since some of the team members believe that the quality is very low. Sarah knows this because she has talked with some of them offline, but she also knows they never discuss the work quality openly and that the tension around it simmers in the background of each meeting.

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