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| Criterion |  Operations Accountability Ladder |  Operations After-Action Review |  Operations Learning Review |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With defensive reactions to problems, the method shifts the view from justification to ownership. It makes visible which reaction stage a person or team is currently stuck on. | After missions or project phases with unclear outcomes, the method makes visible what actually happened and what can be learned from it. It separates course, effect, and causes so experience turns into solid improvement. | After a project phase with mixed results, the method makes learning from the individual case reusable. It connects events, decisions, and systemic conditions into robust insights. | When improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-45 min | 20-45 min | 1-3 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-8 | 3-12 | 3-10 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ownership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching Notes | Lessons learned, Action items, Event summary | Learning Review Notes, System Factors, Improvement Actions | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam | LearningOperationsImprovement | LearningRetrospectiveIncidentOperations | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |