Walk Down the Ladder in a Blame Meeting
Apply Ladder of Inference reset to a team conflict step by step.
After a failed demo, the team says, “Design changed everything late.” Design says Engineering ignored the spec. The retro is ten minutes from becoming a courtroom. Ladder of Inference reset The common trap is to solve for immediate calm and leave the recurring trigger untouched. Observed data Ask for events only: dates, artifacts, decisions, handoffs. This moves the team off conclusions and onto shared facts. Selected data Ask what each side noticed most and what they may have ignored. Conflict often comes from different slices of the same timeline. Interpretation Name the stories: “Design does not respect build time” and…
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