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| Criterion |  Operations Accountability Ladder |  Operations Learning Review |  Agile Sprint Retrospective |  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 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 a sprint is over and friction shouldn't simply be carried forward, it opens the view onto collaboration and patterns. It creates space to see causes and changes together. | 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 | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-45 min | 1-3 h | Up to 3 hours for a one-month Sprint; shorter Sprints are usually shorter | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-8 | 3-10 | Scrum Team | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ownership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching Notes | Learning Review Notes, System Factors, Improvement Actions | Improvement actions, Team agreements | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam | LearningRetrospectiveIncidentOperations | RetrospectiveImprovementLearning | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |