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| Criterion |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Systems Thinking CATWOE Analysis |  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 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. | 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 | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 4-12 | 3-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |