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| Criterion | ![]() Operations Accountability Ladder | ![]() Agile Sailboat Retrospective | ![]() Agile Starfish Retrospective | ![]() Facilitation Responsibility Poker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When a team wants to read momentum, brakes, and risks together, it offers an easily understandable picture of the situation. It makes drive, obstacles, and headwind visible in the same picture. | 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. | When it stays unclear who carries responsibility and who only contributes, Responsibility Poker makes the distribution of responsibility explicit. It sharpens the boundaries between weighing in, deciding, and bearing consequences. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-45 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-8 | 4-12 | 4-12 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ownership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching Notes | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Responsibility Map, Role Agreements, Open Questions |
Tags1 shared | ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | RolesResponsibilityTeamFacilitation |



