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| Criterion |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Team Design Team Cognitive Load Assessment |  Agile Sprint Retrospective |  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 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 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 | 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 | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | TeamComplexityImprovementDiagnosis | RetrospectiveImprovementLearning | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |