Common Retrospectives Traps & Solutions
summary
Five concrete antipatterns and their fixes: Prime Directive Ignorance (stop blame by posting the prime directive and nudging when blame appears), Wheel of Fortune (don’t treat post‑its as solutions — use the five retrospective phases and force root‑cause work), Do It Yourself (rotate facilitators or bring externals), Disregard for Preparation (send links, insist on video, prepare an agenda and backup), and In the Soup (use influence circles to separate do / influence / helpless items and create 1–3 measurable experiments).
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:32What is a pattern?
- 3:23What is an antipattern?
- 4:49What is a retrospective?
- 7:25Antipattern: Prime directive ignorance
- 12:42Antipattern: Wheel of fortune
- 20:41Antipattern: Do it yourself
- 23:16Antipattern: Disregard for preparation
- 29:01Antipattern: In the soup
- 33:03Outro
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