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[Double_a_92]

I've seen many people complain about reviews and retrospectives in those threads... But they don't seem like a bad thing to me. The problem is if the sprint is too short. But if the review and retro are done e.g. once every month or so, it can be a good way to see what the other teams have been doing and get an overall picture of your software. And the retro can be a good opportunity to talk about any problems that you encountered, and maybe trigger a solution, or at least just vent about it.

[re-thc → Double_a_92]

The problem is nothing comes out of it. We run retros and there are action items and they go into a black hole.

The higher ups do it to follow the process and not to fix the actual problems.

It gets tiring after a while of time wasting.

[watwut → Double_a_92]

I do not want to talk about these problems again and again and again. I would like to see some improvements.

First few times it works as a psychohygiene, but then it just becomes annoying. So teams stops talking about actual deep issues on those meetings and they are are creating an illusion of happiness.