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Paper illustration of an activity-role table with clear RACI assignments and one highlighted accountable role per activity.
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RACI Matrix
The Scrum Team inspects people, interactions, processes, tools, and the Definition of Done, then agrees on a few testable improvements.
Agile
Sprint Retrospective
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 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.
Complexitysame
LowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 minUp to 3 hours for a one-month Sprint; shorter Sprints are usually shorter
Participantsdifferent
2-8Scrum Team
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
RACI Matrix, Responsibility Map, Decision NotesImprovement actions, Team agreements
Tagsno overlap
RolesResponsibilityGovernanceOperations
RetrospectiveImprovementLearning
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Paper illustration of a review with planned work, actual event sequence, comparison, and assigned improvement actions.
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After-Action Review
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Learning Review
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