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| Criterion |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Decision Making RAPID |  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. | In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels. | 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 | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-12 | 3-12 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | RAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | DecisionRolesGovernance | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |