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| Criterion |  Operations Bottleneck Analysis |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  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. | 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 | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 45-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 4-12 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | FlowMeasurementConstraints | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection |
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