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| Criterion |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Product Strategy Lean Canvas |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Innovation Lean Startup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable. | 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. | For uncertain business assumptions, the method forces the idea into contact with real market reactions early. It separates wishful picture, assumption, and observable behavior, so that learning becomes faster than planning. This translates uncertainty into measurable insight. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 1-6 | 3-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Lean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | LeanStartupValidationMVP |