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| Criterion |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Team Design Team Cognitive Load Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | When a team juggles too many domains, systems, or handoffs, it measures mental overload as an organizational problem. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a cognitive-load profile and action list. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-180 min | 45-90 min | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-20 | 4-12 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Cognitive Load Profile, Action List |
Tagsno overlap | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | TeamComplexityImprovementDiagnosis |
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