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Retrospectives Antipatterns
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Retrospectives Antipatterns

by Aino Vonge Corry
November 2020
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 15m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 17 Disillusioned Facilitator

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. . . in which the team mocks the facilitator for using ridiculous activities, and the facilitator explains why the activities are useful

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Sarah is still inexperienced as a facilitator, and at the next retrospective, she has decided to introduce a new activity: every retrospective should start with a round in which, prompted by a question, everybody shares something from their personal life. The question could be anything, but she decides to make it simple for the team and start with, What did your last meal consist of?1 Sarah believes this is a safe question that doesn’t require much thought and ...

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