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Criterion
Game Day workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Game Day
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
The Scrum Team inspects people, interactions, processes, tools, and the Definition of Done, then agrees on a few testable improvements.
Agile
Sprint Retrospective
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 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 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.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowLow
Timedifferent
Halber Tag45-90 minUp to 3 hours for a one-month Sprint; shorter Sprints are usually shorter
Participantsdifferent
5-204-12Scrum Team
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Simulation Notes, Gaps List, Updated RunbooksStarfish Board, Practice Changes, ExperimentsImprovement actions, Team agreements
Tagsno overlap
ResilienceOperationsIncident
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
RetrospectiveImprovementLearning
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Paper illustration for Learning Review.
Operations
Learning Review
A structured reflection surfaces what was liked, learned, lacked, and longed for. It is a conversation format and does not validate actions automatically.
Agile
4Ls Retrospective
Paper illustration of a review with planned work, actual event sequence, comparison, and assigned improvement actions.
Operations
After-Action Review
Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective