Chapter 11 Death by Postponement

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. . . in which the team is so busy with “real work” that the retrospectives are postponed again and again, and the facilitator helps the team see how valuable these retrospectives are and that they are real work

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In our little team, some problems arise. Some of the code committed to the version control system is not in good enough shape to be committed to the rest of the system. Later, tests and integrations fail and changes have to be rolled back, which means a setback not just for that code but also for the code that depends on it. Frustration starts to build up, and people are looking at the causes ...

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