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| Criterion |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Team Design Team Cognitive Load Assessment |  Agile Sprint Retrospective |  Agile Sailboat 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 juggles too many domains, systems, or handoffs, it measures mental overload as an organizational problem. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a cognitive-load profile and action list. | When a sprint is over and friction shouldn't simply be carried forward, it opens the view onto collaboration and patterns. It creates space to see causes and changes together. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 60-90 min | Up to 3 hours for a one-month Sprint; shorter Sprints are usually shorter | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 3-12 | Scrum Team | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Cognitive Load Profile, Action List | Improvement actions, Team agreements | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | TeamComplexityImprovementDiagnosis | RetrospectiveImprovementLearning | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement |