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| Criterion |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Facilitation Barcamp |  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 many people can contribute knowledge and the flow should stay open, Barcamp provides a framework for self-organized sessions. The format channels energy without defining the content too narrowly in advance. | 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 | Halber Tag bis 2 Tage | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-12 | 15-200 | 4-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Session Board, Session Notes, Community Learnings | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | FacilitationLarge groupLearning | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |