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I think this is an excellent approach, and I try to do it myself. But YMMV for getting teammates to do it in a meeting - even with a generally supportive manager (not me, I'm just scrum master), there is just a psychological resistance. I don't think that they have a list in their heads and are simply afraid to share it, I'd guess that it requires some effortful imagination, and would be unpleasant, so things just get stuck. I'd love ideas for follow up prompts that might help with this.



There's a book called "how to decide" by Annie Duke that has some good advice on how to inspire this type of thinking.

For example, one of the ideas is the "doctor evil" or "imposter" game.

(1) Imagine a positive goal.

(2) Imagine that Dr. Evil has control of your brain, causing you to make decisions that will guarantee failure.

(3) Any given instance of that type of decision must have a good enough rationale that it won’t be noticed by you or others examining that decision.

(4) Write down those decisions.

Someone elses notes from this book: https://wisdomfromexperts.com/why-you-must-use-negative-thin...




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