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| Criterion |  Systems Thinking Rich Picture |  Operations Accountability Ladder |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Systems Thinking CATWOE Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | A Rich Picture brings an unclear situation onto a shared drawing. It captures actors, tensions, information flows, and blind spots before the team jumps to solutions too early. | With defensive reactions to problems, the method shifts the view from justification to ownership. It makes visible which reaction stage a person or team is currently stuck on. | 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. | CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 20-45 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | 1-8 | 4-12 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Rich Picture, Problem Framing Notes | Ownership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching Notes | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints |
Tagsno overlap | Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization | ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders |