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Criterion
Paper illustration for NoEstimates.
Agile
NoEstimates
Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
Purposedifferent
When estimating slows a team down more than it helps, it shifts the focus to flow, small slices, and real lead time. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, and Slicing Rules.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.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
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
laufend45-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-124-124-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing RulesSailboat Board, Risks, Improvement ActionsStarfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments
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EstimationForecastingFlow
RetrospectiveTeamImprovement
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
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Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
A structured reflection surfaces what was liked, learned, lacked, and longed for. It is a conversation format and does not validate actions automatically.
Agile
4Ls Retrospective
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting