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| Criterion |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Business Strategy Strategy Execution Loop |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Agile Start Stop Continue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The Strategy Execution Loop helps avoid treating strategy as a one-off document. It makes visible how strategic decisions are turned into objectives, initiatives, operational work, measurement, and learning. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | Initial 3-6 h, then monthly or quarterly reviews | 45-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 5-12 | 4-12 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Execution Loop, Review Cadence, Strategic Learning Log | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | ExecutionCadenceLearningGovernance | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection |