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| Criterion | ![]() Agile Sailboat Retrospective | ![]() Team Design Team Topologies Interaction Modes | ![]() Facilitation Team Charter | ![]() Agile Start Stop Continue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 several teams collaborate repeatedly, it describes the right interaction mode for each interface between them. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as an interaction heat map and pairwise agreements. | 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 team wants to deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Half day | 2-4 h | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | Team-Leads plus Architecture | 3-12 | 3-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions |
Tags1 shared | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection |



