Chapter 12Catalyzing and Sustaining Change
Productive teams judge retrospectives by their results. Yet results don’t just magically happen.
Instead, results happen only after changing something meaningful, habitual, or impactful. And if you’ve ever tried stopping a nail-biting habit or starting a daily exercise routine, you know how difficult that can be.
The same is true for changing teams’ and organizations’ behavior.
In fact, we’ve consistently found that a lack of follow-through after the retrospective is over is one of the most common reasons that retrospectives don’t produce real results. At a high level that’s because not changing is, by definition, easier than changing. While there’s no way of guaranteeing that you will be successful ...
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