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| Criterion | ![]() Decision Making Cynefin Workshop | ![]() Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-180 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-20 | 4-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |
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