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| Criterion |  Decision Making Decision Rights Mapping |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Decision Making DACI |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement. | 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. | In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated. | 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 | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 4-12 | 2-10 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Decision Rights Matrix, Agreement | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |