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Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Purposedifferent
For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments.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 deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 h45-90 min30-60 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-84-123-121-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation PlanStarfish Board, Practice Changes, ExperimentsStart Stop Continue Board, Improvement ActionsArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
RiskDecisionSensemaking
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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