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Paper illustration for CATWOE Analysis.
Systems Thinking
CATWOE Analysis
Blameless Postmortem workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Blameless Postmortem
Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Purposedifferent
CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way.After an incident with damage or a near miss, the method creates a sober field for learning without assigning blame. It directs attention to the course of events, conditions, and effective countermeasures.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
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min30-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-83-124-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, ConstraintsPostmortem Doc, Action Items, TimelineSailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders
Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability
RetrospectiveTeamImprovement
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Agile
4Ls Retrospective
Paper illustration for Learning Review.
Operations
Learning Review
The Scrum Team inspects people, interactions, processes, tools, and the Definition of Done, then agrees on a few testable improvements.
Agile
Sprint Retrospective
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective