Chapter 21 Negative Team

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. . . in which the team wants to talk only about the negative things because they think these are the only things they can learn from, and the facilitator shows them that a focus on positive aspects can be equally valuable

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The team at Titanic Softwære A/S has now been doing retrospectives for some months. Team members have learned that they can meet some of their challenges and solve some of their problems with retrospectives. They dive right into the problems when they meet for the retrospectives. When gathering data for the retrospectives, it is often the negative Post-it Notes they reach for. When Sarah ...

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