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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Sprint Retrospective4Ls RetrospectiveSailboat Retrospective
| Criterion | ![]() Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) | ![]() Agile Sprint Retrospective | ![]() Agile 4Ls Retrospective | ![]() Agile Sailboat Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | 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 a sprint should not only be assessed but also learned from, it captures experience in clear learning categories. It records what worked, what's missing, and what should run differently next time. | 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 | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | Up to 3 hours for a one-month Sprint; shorter Sprints are usually shorter | 45–75 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | Scrum Team | Team members involved | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Improvement actions, Team agreements | 4Ls Board, Learning Themes, Improvement Actions | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | RetrospectiveImprovementLearning | RetrospectiveLearningReflectionTeam | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement |



