I've worked at a place where all that IS often the case: retrospectives surface issues, those issues typically get resolved, managers attend, etc.
Even at one point when we felt like retrospectives were getting less effective we actually retro'd that and made a bunch of changes to the process (namely, checking in a set number of weeks after each retro to follow-up and see whether action items were indeed followed through on)
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I've worked at a place where all that IS often the case: retrospectives surface issues, those issues typically get resolved, managers attend, etc.
Even at one point when we felt like retrospectives were getting less effective we actually retro'd that and made a bunch of changes to the process (namely, checking in a set number of weeks after each retro to follow-up and see whether action items were indeed followed through on)
+1 to meta-retros (or retros on retros). Once you have a group with a ton of trust, you can retro all of the things.
(and hi Ozzie)