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When team retrospectives become meaningless rituals

Our engineering team has this ritual where we do post-mortems after every incident but we never actually change anything afterward and everyone just goes through the motions. I've started dreading these meetings because they feel like performance theater and I don't know if I'm the only one who sees it.

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