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| Criterion |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Engineering Golden Path |  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 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 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 | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 1-3 Tage Setup, laufend | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Golden Path Guide, Templates, Quality Checks | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | EngineeringProductivityGovernance | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |
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