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Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Paper illustration for Learning Review.
Operations
Learning Review
Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
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.After a project phase with mixed results, the method makes learning from the individual case reusable. It connects events, decisions, and systemic conditions into robust insights.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.
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Timedifferent
45-90 min1-3 h30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
4-123-103-12
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WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement ActionsLearning Review Notes, System Factors, Improvement ActionsStart Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions
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RetrospectiveTeamImprovement
LearningRetrospectiveIncidentOperations
RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection
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Paper illustration of a review with planned work, actual event sequence, comparison, and assigned improvement actions.
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