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| Criterion |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |  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 deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood. | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. | 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 | 30-60 min | 1-3 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-12 | 1-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | SensemakingDecisionRationale | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |