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Criterion
Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
Paper illustration for Feynman Technique.
Knowledge Modeling
Feynman Technique
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
Purposedifferent
For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput.The Feynman Technique checks understanding by explaining a topic so that it stays easy for others to understand. It makes knowledge gaps visible before they become costly in everyday work.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 deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h20-60 min45-90 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-814-123-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up MeasuresPlain-language Explanation, Knowledge Gaps, Study NotesStarfish Board, Practice Changes, ExperimentsStart Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions
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FlowMeasurementConstraints
LearningKnowledgeUnderstanding
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection
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