What 1 million retro cards say dev teams actually complain about 👨💻👩💻
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Every agile retrospective produces a small pile of sticky notes, and then the pile disappears. Multiply that by 86,977 retros and you get something more interesting: a dataset of what software teams say is wrong, in their own words, when nobody is performing for an audience. I work on Kollabe , so we happen to be sitting on exactly that pile: 1,071,253 retro cards written by real teams between October 2023 and July 2026. Last week I finally ran the analysis I'd been putting off. I expected…
1Key Takeaways
- Every agile retrospective produces a small pile of sticky notes, and then the pile disappears.
- Multiply that by 86,977 retros and you get something more interesting: a dataset of what software teams say is wrong, in their own words, when nobody is performing for an audience.
- I work on Kollabe , so we happen to be sitting on exactly that pile: 1,071,253 retro cards written by real teams between October 2023 and July 2026.
- Last week I finally ran the analysis I'd been putting off.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that every agile retrospective produces a small pile of sticky notes, and then the pile disappears.
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