Step 1. Make visible all the fears identified so far (by you alone or by the whole team). We like sticky notes because you can move them around easily, but writing on a whiteboard or putting index cards on a table will work too. Solicit more fears from the group, perhaps by asking for more extreme versions of identified fears (“If a bug is bad, would an outage be worse?”) or by asking for the opposite of identified fears (“We’re afraid we’ll lose staff. Are we also afraid of growing the team too fast?”).
