Periagoge
Scenario

How to address collective avoidance in engineering teams

Our engineering team has this thing where we all complain about technical debt in private but when we're in sprint planning everyone just nods and takes on more feature work. I've started to realize that including myself, we're all performing agreement while knowing we're making the codebase worse.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The team has developed a shared delusion where everyone participates in decisions they privately disagree with.

Your guide for this
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Aurelius works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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