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| Criterion |  Knowledge Modeling Domain Storytelling |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Operations Process Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Domain Storytelling translates domain knowledge into a shared narrative of actors, objects, and workflows. It is especially useful when language, rules, and process understanding must be tightly connected. | When a team's or workshop's mood needs to become readable, it structures emotional signals with little setup. It makes strain, relief, and sources of energy tangible. | 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. | With a confusing workflow that has many handoffs, the method makes the actual process visible. It shows where work is passed on, delayed, or duplicated, so improvement targets the right spots. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-10 | 4-12 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Domain Story, Glossary Notes, Process Narrative | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Process Map, Handoff List, Improvement Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | KnowledgeDomain-Driven DesignProcess | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | ProcessOperationsImprovement |