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| Criterion |  Operations Accountability Ladder |  Team Design Team Cognitive Load Assessment |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  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. | When a team juggles too many domains, systems, or handoffs, it measures mental overload as an organizational problem. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a cognitive-load profile and action list. | When a team's or workshop's mood needs to become readable, it structures emotional signals with little setup. It makes strain, relief, and sources of energy tangible. | 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 | 60-90 min | 30-60 min | 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 | Cognitive Load Profile, Action List | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tags1 shared | ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam | TeamComplexityImprovementDiagnosis | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |