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Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Paper illustration for Mad Sad Glad
Agile
Mad Sad Glad
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 a team's or workshop's mood needs to become readable, it structures emotional signals with little setup. It makes strain, relief, and sources of energy tangible.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.
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LowLowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min30-60 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-123-104-12
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WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement ActionsEmotion Board, Themes, Action ItemsStarfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments
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RetrospectiveTeamImprovement
RetrospectiveTeamReflection
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
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Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
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The Scrum Team inspects people, interactions, processes, tools, and the Definition of Done, then agrees on a few testable improvements.
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Paper illustration of Team Cognitive Load Assessment with its method-specific working model.
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