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If we have to have a manager, I like retros as they’re a way to give feedback to our manager on things we don’t like about our operational process.

Seriously, the retro each week should be two questions:

1) Is this process working to the satisfaction of the team?

2) Anyone have anything else to discuss about it?

And it should be perfectly fine for it to be less than one minute most weeks.

If the team habits you have aren't joyful or even useful, why don't you change them?

I mention it, and I get “[other person] wants to do it this way.” The other person is a product manager, not an engineer. You can only complain so much.