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| Criterion |  Agile Sprint Retrospective |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |  Operations After-Action Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a sprint is over and friction shouldn't simply be carried forward, it opens the view onto collaboration and patterns. It creates space to see causes and changes together. | When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. | After missions or project phases with unclear outcomes, the method makes visible what actually happened and what can be learned from it. It separates course, effect, and causes so experience turns into solid improvement. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Up to 3 hours for a one-month Sprint; shorter Sprints are usually shorter | 60-180 min | 1-3 h | 20-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | Scrum Team | 4-20 | 1-8 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Improvement actions, Team agreements | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale | Lessons learned, Action items, Event summary |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveImprovementLearning | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | SensemakingDecisionRationale | LearningOperationsImprovement |