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| Criterion |  Business Strategy 5-Minuten VC-Check |  Agile Sprint Retrospective |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |  Operations After-Action Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 is over and friction shouldn't simply be carried forward, it opens the view onto collaboration and patterns. It creates space to see causes and changes together. | When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | After missions or project phases with unclear outcomes, the method makes visible what actually happened and what can be learned from it. It separates course, effect, and causes so experience turns into solid improvement. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | Up to 3 hours for a one-month Sprint; shorter Sprints are usually shorter | 45-90 min | 20-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | Scrum Team | 1-6 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation step | Improvement actions, Team agreements | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Lessons learned, Action items, Event summary |
Tagsno overlap | StartupValidationCompetition | RetrospectiveImprovementLearning | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | LearningOperationsImprovement |