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Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture Canvas
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.The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.
Complexitysame
LowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
4-123-10
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement ActionsArchitecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality Attributes
Tagsno overlap
RetrospectiveTeamImprovement
CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop
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Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
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
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