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| Criterion |  Systems Thinking Leverage Points |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy. | 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 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 headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Half day | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-12 | 4-12 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Leverage Map, Action Strategy | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tagsno overlap | Systems thinkingChangeStrategy | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |