We Just Cancelled a Sprint Retrospective. It’s a Disaster
<p>I feel tense in my shoulders today. This is because I failed to speak up in the stand-up. I didn’t say what I know to be true and let myself and my whole team down.</p>
<p>As a result of my actions, the team won’t improve and we will be unable to deliver as many features as we should be able to.</p>
<p>So what is the crime of <strong><em>The Secret Developer </em></strong>this time?</p>
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<p>I didn’t speak up when we cancelled the Sprint Retro.</p>
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<h1>The Working Environment</h1>
<p>I’ve been working at my current position for something like a year. To say I’m not enjoying it is something of an understatement and I’m just starting to come to the truthful conclusion that it <strong><em>isn’t me it’s them</em></strong>.</p>
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<p>Today I feel that I’ve got just a little more evidence that the correct conclusion has been reached.</p>
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<p>Our feature team has just started four-week sprints because we failed time and time again to deliver work in two-week sprints.</p>
<h1>The Situation</h1>
<p>At the end of today’s standup at the end of the sprint, we had the following questions from the tech lead and product management.</p>
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<p>Is there anything you want to raise today for the retro or we can cancel.<br />
I don’t, but it’s really a question for the team.<br />
I’ll ask the Scrum Master later.<br />
[to the team] Anyone want to raise anything?</p>
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<p>We were met with a stunning wall of silence to this last question. Now I’m of the opinion that retrospectives should (near) <strong><em>never</em></strong> be canceled.</p>
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