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Moderating the Merge Phase in Remote Workshops

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Audience member observes that in remote workshops people returning from breakouts often seem to live in different worlds, making merge hard. Answer: before the merge, each subgroup should use the same strict baseline terminology (extended only when needed). During the merge, the facilitator interprets each group's result aloud; if the interpretation is wrong, the group corrects — pulling everyone back onto shared ground. The facilitator time-boxes iterations so merge doesn't consume an hour, and runs as many split–work–merge rounds as needed.

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Use a shared baseline vocabulary; at merge, the facilitator restates each group's result aloud so it can be corrected. Time-box and iterate.
question Moderating the Merge Phase in Remote Workshops
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Directly concerns how to run the merge phase of split-merge cycles.
question Moderating the Merge Phase in Remote Workshops
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Q&A question from the wroclove.rb 2022 session.

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