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| Criterion | ![]() Agile Mad Sad Glad | ![]() Agile Sailboat Retrospective | ![]() Systems Thinking CATWOE Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 4-12 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders |
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