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| Criterion | ![]() Product Discovery Opportunity Interview | ![]() Agile Starfish Retrospective | ![]() Agile Sailboat Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When opportunities are still hidden behind signals of need, it structures conversations around needs and obstacles. It looks for patterns that lead to new product opportunities. | 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 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 | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min je Interview | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 Interviews | 4-12 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Interview Notes, Opportunity Themes, Customer Quotes | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | DiscoveryInterviewsOpportunityCustomer | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement |
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