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| Criterion |  DevOps Incident Command |  Operations Causal Factor Analysis |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | During an acute incident with several people involved, the method creates a clear leadership and communication structure. It reduces chaos when fast coordination and clean situational awareness are both needed at once. | For an event with a complicated course, the method breaks down the contributing factors along the timeline. It shows how conditions, decisions, and reactions together produce a course of events. | When a team wants to read momentum, brakes, and risks together, it offers an easily understandable picture of the situation. It makes drive, obstacles, and headwind visible in the same picture. | 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 | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | As needed | 2-6 h | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-15 | 3-10 | 4-12 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Incident Log, Action Tracker, Stakeholder Updates | Event Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | IncidentOperationsReliability | CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |