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Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Paper session grid with two time blocks, three rooms, colored session cards and an open topic pool.
Facilitation
Barcamp
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
Purposedifferent
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 many people can contribute knowledge and the flow should stay open, Barcamp provides a framework for self-organized sessions. The format channels energy without defining the content too narrowly in advance.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
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
45-90 minHalber Tag bis 2 Tage45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-1215-2004-12
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement ActionsSession Board, Session Notes, Community LearningsStarfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments
Tagsno overlap
RetrospectiveTeamImprovement
FacilitationLarge groupLearning
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
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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
The Scrum Team inspects people, interactions, processes, tools, and the Definition of Done, then agrees on a few testable improvements.
Agile
Sprint 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 of a review with planned work, actual event sequence, comparison, and assigned improvement actions.
Operations
After-Action Review