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| Criterion |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Systems Thinking Rich Picture |  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. | A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 30-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-10 | 4-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Rich Picture, Problem Framing Notes | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |
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