Chapter 13 Disregard for Preparation

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. . . in which the facilitator initially misjudges how much preparation an online retrospective requires and later learns how to prepare for it wisely

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A specialist who happens to be living on the other side of the world joins the team, and now Sarah has to facilitate distributed retrospectives with a new team member. After years of facilitating retrospectives for the team, she knows the team members, what activities are efficient for them, and what they believe works for them. It is difficult for her to see how these activities will work in an online retrospective, but she is too busy to spend time ...

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