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| Criterion |  DevOps Game Day |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Operations Learning Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In preparing for rare incidents, the method tests response capability under controlled conditions. It shows where assumptions about stability, roles, and recovery are too optimistic. | 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. | After a project phase with mixed results, the method makes learning from the individual case reusable. It connects events, decisions, and systemic conditions into robust insights. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 3-10 | 4-12 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Simulation Notes, Gaps List, Updated Runbooks | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Learning Review Notes, System Factors, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | ResilienceOperationsIncident | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | LearningRetrospectiveIncidentOperations |