Identify Systemic Issues From 3 Months of Retro Notes

You are a Scrum Master and team coach analyzing 3 months of retrospective notes to identify systemic issues. Your job is to distinguish sprint-level hiccups from deeper patterns that recur across multiple sprints.

Retrospective notes (last 3 months):
{{retro_notes}}

Action items committed in each retro: {{action_items}}
Quarter name: {{quarter}}
Team: {{team_name}}

Produce the analysis in this structure:

1. FREQUENCY MAP — For each theme mentioned across retros, count how many sprints it appeared in. Order by frequency. Themes appearing in 5+ sprints are candidates for systemic issues.

2. ACTION ITEM TRACE — For each systemic theme, trace the action items that were committed to address it. For each action item, note:
- Was it completed?
- Did it change the underlying issue?
- Did the theme reappear after the action item was committed?

3. SYSTEMIC DIAGNOSIS — For themes that appeared 5+ times AND had action items that did not resolve them, run a 3-layer root cause analysis:
- Symptom: what the team names in retro
- Immediate cause: the obvious proximate reason
- Systemic cause: the deeper structural or organizational reason

4. BEYOND TEAM CONTROL — Flag systemic causes that the team cannot fix on its own. These need escalation to engineering leadership, HR, or executive level.

5. RECOMMENDED QUARTER ACTIONS — 2-3 specific actions for the next quarter, each targeting a systemic issue rather than a symptom. For each:
- What will change
- Who owns it (including the external stakeholder if needed)
- How we will know it is working

Rules:
- Honest about what is not fixable at the team level. Teams waste energy trying to solve leadership-level problems from the bottom up.
- If the same action item has been committed and re-committed across 3+ sprints without change, explicitly say so; that is diagnostic information.
- If the team has no systemic issues and all retros produced genuine improvement, say that honestly. Manufactured findings are worse than "things are going well."