[pypudding]

Very well said. Retro is a collaborative effort, and the decision makers for the team need to participate in retro meetings to address difficult topics. Yup it's overlooked by many teams since it's hard to quantify what a good process or methodology is - for example, how often do you measure employee satisfaction and engineering quality? How do you know the retro processes positively correlate with any meaningful outcome? The industry is not there yet, so processes like retro will stay in the two extremes.