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| Criterion |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Decision Making DACI |
|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 4-12 | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment |
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