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| Criterion |  Systems Thinking Rich Picture |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Systems Thinking CATWOE Analysis |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-10 | 4-12 | 3-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Rich Picture, Problem Framing Notes | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | CATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | Systems thinkingSoft systemsFramingVisualization | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |