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Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Paper illustration for Responsibility Poker.
Facilitation
Responsibility Poker
The Scrum Team inspects people, interactions, processes, tools, and the Definition of Done, then agrees on a few testable improvements.
Agile
Sprint 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 it stays unclear who carries responsibility and who only contributes, Responsibility Poker makes the distribution of responsibility explicit. It sharpens the boundaries between weighing in, deciding, and bearing consequences.When a sprint is over and friction shouldn't simply be carried forward, it opens the view onto collaboration and patterns. It creates space to see causes and changes together.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min45-90 minUp to 3 hours for a one-month Sprint; shorter Sprints are usually shorter
Participantsdifferent
4-123-10Scrum Team
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement ActionsResponsibility Map, Role Agreements, Open QuestionsImprovement actions, Team agreements
Tagsno overlap
RetrospectiveTeamImprovement
RolesResponsibilityTeamFacilitation
RetrospectiveImprovementLearning
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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
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish 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 for Accountability Ladder
Operations
Accountability Ladder