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Discussion on: Healthy teams, unhealthy teams: in your experience, what makes them so?

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Gergely Orosz

Great insight! Is it fair to assume this also implies there's enough trust present on the team for people to be honest on these retrospectives, without hurting each other's feelings as well, right?

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Cubicle Buddha

Good question about trust. I think the retrospectives can help build trust just by letting the employees see that someone is bringing actionable change.

But yea, those first retros can be really gnarly if there hasn’t been a culture of forgiveness in the past. When it’s that bad, I (as the scrum master) work with the development managers to see if the developers can get more love and care. Once they feel more comfortable, the retros improve. It takes time. :)