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Criterion
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
Purposedifferent
When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.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
HighLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
6-30 Experten4-12
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesStarfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments
Tagsno overlap
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
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Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
A structured reflection surfaces what was liked, learned, lacked, and longed for. It is a conversation format and does not validate actions automatically.
Agile
4Ls Retrospective
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics