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| Criterion |  Operations Accountability Ladder |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Facilitation Responsibility Poker |  Agile Sailboat 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. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-45 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-8 | 4-12 | 3-10 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ownership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching Notes | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Responsibility Map, Role Agreements, Open Questions | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions |
Tags1 shared | ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | RolesResponsibilityTeamFacilitation | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement |