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When team retrospectives avoid interpersonal issues

Our design team does retrospectives every sprint but we never talk about the real problems like how Sarah interrupts everyone and how Mike checks out when he disagrees and we just focus on process improvements while the interpersonal stuff festers.

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Your team keeps fixing the process while ignoring the personality clashes that are the real problem.

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