Truce

Instead of holding the project retrospective immediately, you inform the team that the meeting will resume after lunch today. You hope this will buy Jason some time to make up his mind about whether or not he’ll help the team. This way, if he chooses to stay and help, he won’t feel the team has left him behind.

By late morning, Jason returns and tells you he has decided to stay. He mutters he’ll do his best to make things work. You notice he says this without looking you in the eye.

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