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Day 3, and it’s time for your daily catch-up with Patrick.

Before you sit down, Patrick says, “I hear you’ve caused quite a bit of commotion in the team since your arrival.”

You want to explain, but you wait for Patrick to finish.

“‘That’s why we hired you,’ is what I told Jason,” says Patrick with a smile.

You update Patrick on the events of yesterday, including how there was a confrontation between Jason and yourself at the start of the project retrospective.

With that out of the way, you don’t dwell on the difficulties. Instead, you focus on the options for moving forward.

One way is to get Jason’s buy-in before continuing with your information gathering and analysis of the situation with the team. Another option ...

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