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Criterion
Paper illustration for Mad Sad Glad
Agile
Mad Sad Glad
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Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration for Learning Review.
Operations
Learning Review
Purposedifferent
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 statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.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
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min1-3 h1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-101-83-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Emotion Board, Themes, Action ItemsArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleLearning Review Notes, System Factors, Improvement Actions
Tagsno overlap
RetrospectiveTeamReflection
SensemakingDecisionRationale
LearningRetrospectiveIncidentOperations
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4Ls Retrospective
Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
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Paper illustration of a review with planned work, actual event sequence, comparison, and assigned improvement actions.
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Blameless Postmortem workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
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