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Criterion
Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Paper illustration for Team Charter.
Facilitation
Team Charter
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
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 is starting fresh or working past each other, Team Charter clarifies the shared working basis. It visibly sets out how collaboration, decision paths, and mutual conduct should work day to day.When a sprint should not only be assessed but also learned from, it captures experience in clear learning categories. It records what worked, what's missing, and what should run differently next time.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min2-4 h45–75 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-123-12Team members involved4-12
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement ActionsTeam Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes4Ls Board, Learning Themes, Improvement ActionsStarfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments
Tags1 shared
RetrospectiveTeamImprovement
TeamAlignmentCollaboration
RetrospectiveLearningReflectionTeam
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
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