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| Criterion |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Innovation Lean Startup |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | For uncertain business assumptions, the method forces the idea into contact with real market reactions early. It separates wishful picture, assumption, and observable behavior, so that learning becomes faster than planning. This translates uncertainty into measurable insight. | 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 | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 45-60 min | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | LeanStartupValidationMVP | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |