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| Criterion |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures. | 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. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 20–45 min | 30-60 min | 30-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | Small cross-functional group | 3-12 | 2-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |