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Criterion
Paper illustration of an activity-role table with clear RACI assignments and one highlighted accountable role per activity.
Operations
RACI Matrix
Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Paper illustration for Responsibility Poker.
Facilitation
Responsibility Poker
Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
Purposedifferent
With unclear responsibilities across several roles or areas, the method creates unambiguous accountability logic. It reduces friction because decision, execution, contribution, and information become separately visible.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 it stays unclear who carries responsibility and who only contributes, Responsibility Poker makes the distribution of responsibility explicit. It sharpens the boundaries between weighing in, deciding, and bearing consequences.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.
Complexitysame
LowLowLowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min45-90 min45-90 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
2-84-123-103-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
RACI Matrix, Responsibility Map, Decision NotesSailboat Board, Risks, Improvement ActionsResponsibility Map, Role Agreements, Open QuestionsStart Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions
Tagsno overlap
RolesResponsibilityGovernanceOperations
RetrospectiveTeamImprovement
RolesResponsibilityTeamFacilitation
RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection
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