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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Agile 4Ls Retrospective |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list. | When a sprint should not only be assessed but also learned from, it captures experience in clear learning categories. It records what worked, what's missing, and what should run differently next time. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | 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 | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 45–75 min | 45-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | Team members involved | 2-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | 4Ls Board, Learning Themes, Improvement Actions | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | RetrospectiveLearningReflectionTeam | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |