Using a wonderful example of the fictitious software firm Titanic Corp, experienced facilitator and agile coach Aino Corry made it clear in our recent member conference call, that the point of a retrospective is not to blame Peter, but rather to understand the circumstances that led to striking an iceberg and ultimately sinking.

Aino has recently written a book about antipatterns for retrospectives because she seemed to be making the same mistakes over and over. Antipatterns are like patterns, only more informative. With antipatterns you will first see what patterns re-occur in "bad" retrospectives and then you will see how to avoid, or remedy, the situation.