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| Criterion |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Operations After-Action Review |  Agile Sprint 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 a team wants to read momentum, brakes, and risks together, it offers an easily understandable picture of the situation. It makes drive, obstacles, and headwind visible in the same picture. | After missions or project phases with unclear outcomes, the method makes visible what actually happened and what can be learned from it. It separates course, effect, and causes so experience turns into solid improvement. | When a sprint is over and friction shouldn't simply be carried forward, it opens the view onto collaboration and patterns. It creates space to see causes and changes together. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 20-45 min | Up to 3 hours for a one-month Sprint; shorter Sprints are usually shorter |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 4-12 | 3-12 | Scrum Team |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Lessons learned, Action items, Event summary | Improvement actions, Team agreements |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | LearningOperationsImprovement | RetrospectiveImprovementLearning |