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Criterion
Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Paper illustration for World Café.
Facilitation
World Café
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 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 group needs to connect many viewpoints in a short time, World Café creates a calm alternation between closeness and rotation. It sets thinking in motion without forcing the conversation into full-plenary rigidity.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.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 min60-180 min30-60 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-1212-100+3-124-12
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement ActionsTable Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared QuestionsStart Stop Continue Board, Improvement ActionsStarfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments
Tagsno overlap
RetrospectiveTeamImprovement
FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking
RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
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