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Selected:Accountability LadderTeam Cognitive Load AssessmentStarfish RetrospectiveSailboat Retrospective
| Criterion |  Operations Accountability Ladder |  Team Design Team Cognitive Load Assessment |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  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 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 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-45 min | 60-90 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-8 | 3-12 | 4-12 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ownership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching Notes | Cognitive Load Profile, Action List | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions |
Tags1 shared | ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam | TeamComplexityImprovementDiagnosis | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement |