Words you know: complete the sentences

hand off · personality clash · second-guess · clash · take sides

• When two senior developers ____ over system requirements, the project manager must facilitate a compromise.
• The delay was not caused by technical complexity, but by an unresolved ____ between the lead analysts.
• A good facilitator will never ____ in an internal disagreement between backend and frontend squads.
• Before taking leave, make sure to cleanly ____ all unresolved tickets to the on-call engineer in Manchester.
• Constantly having to ____ decisions made by the infrastructure team creates unnecessary friction and delay.

Remember: Habits and annoying behaviour (will / would, be always + -ing, keep (on) + -ing)

• Our team lead is frustrating because he [is always interrupting / always would interrupt / will interrupt always] engineers when they try to explain root causes.
• In our previous startup in Denver, the product manager [would constantly change / was changed constantly / is constantly changing] sprint priorities without consulting the developers.
• Even after we showed him the benchmark data, he [kept on insisting / was kept to insist / keeps to insist] that his unoptimized algorithm was faster.
• If you point out a bug in his script, Dave [will become / is becoming / keeps become] defensive and blame the automated testing suite.

Remember: Verb + object + infinitive (let / make / help; allow / expect / encourage / persuade / enable)

• Blameless post-mortems [enable teams to understand / enable teams understand / enable teams understanding] the systemic factors behind critical failures.
• The engineering director refused to [let the developers deploy / let the developers to deploy / let the developers deploying] hotfixes directly to production without peer review.
• We actively [encourage junior staff to voice / encourage junior staff voice / encourage junior staff voicing] dissent whenever they spot potential reliability issues.
• Sharing vulnerability during retro meetings will [help engineers feel / help engineers to feeling / help engineers feeling] supported by their peers and leaders.

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