Team Meetings That Don't Suck - Avoid Retrospectives Antipatterns
summary
Claims six concrete anti‑patterns out of 24 (including wheel of fortune, in the soup, prime directive ignorance) and shows specific fixes: use a fishbone diagram and circles of influence to generate insights, rotate facilitators or book external ones, dot‑vote then run a consent round, give each action an owner and deadline, prepare online boards a day ahead and insist on video, never record. These changes aim to turn symptom‑level fixes into root‑cause experiments and stop retrospectives from becoming wasted time.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:35Patterns vs. Antipatterns
- 4:30Retrospectives
- 15:22"Wheel of fortune" antipattern
- 16:40"In the soup" antipattern
- 20:37"Prime directive ignorance" antipattern
- 25:12"Loudmouth" antipattern
- 28:54"Do it yourself" antipattern
- 31:25"Disregard for preparation" antipattern
- 37:36Outro
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