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| Criterion |  Knowledge Modeling Domain Storytelling |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Agile Sailboat 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 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 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. | 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 | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-12 | 4-12 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Domain Story, Glossary Notes, Process Narrative | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Process Map, Handoff List, Improvement Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | KnowledgeDomain-Driven DesignProcess | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | ProcessOperationsImprovement |