If people feel psychologically safe at the workplace, you don't have to ask them "what they don't have patience for" or "which activities deplete their energy".

If people feel psychologically safe at the workplace, you don't have to ask them "what they don't have patience for" or "which activities deplete their energy". They will tell you. (Assuming you do agile - which everyone pretends to - they will tell you during the retrospective. Unsurprisingly, this is the part of agile methogology most companies decide to leave out.) If people don't feel safe, they will wonder whether their answers will be used to accommodate them better... or to decide who gets fired.