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When teams perform improvement instead of actually improving

Our product team has this ritual where we do retrospectives every sprint but we only ever surface safe problems and I realized last week that we've created this whole performance of continuous improvement while the actual dysfunctions just get deeper. Everyone participates but nobody says what's actually broken.

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Your team goes through the motions of improving while the real problems keep growing.

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