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Agile
Mad Sad Glad
Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
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.For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments.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.
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Timedifferent
30-60 min1-4 h30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-103-83-12
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Emotion Board, Themes, Action ItemsChallenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation PlanStart Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions
Tagsno overlap
RetrospectiveTeamReflection
RiskDecisionSensemaking
RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection
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