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| Criterion |  Engineering Golden Path |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Agile 4Ls Retrospective |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When teams need a reliable default path for frequent use, sprawl quickly emerges without any guiding logic. Golden Path bundles the preferred path so good practice becomes easy and deviation becomes deliberate. | When a team wants to deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood. | 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 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 | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 30-60 min | 45–75 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-12 | Team members involved | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | 4Ls Board, Learning Themes, Improvement Actions | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | RetrospectiveLearningReflectionTeam | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |