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Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
Paper illustration for Accountability Ladder
Operations
Accountability Ladder
Paper illustration for CATWOE Analysis.
Systems Thinking
CATWOE Analysis
Purposedifferent
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.With defensive reactions to problems, the method shifts the view from justification to ownership. It makes visible which reaction stage a person or team is currently stuck on.CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min20-45 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-121-83-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Starfish Board, Practice Changes, ExperimentsOwnership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching NotesCATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints
Tagsno overlap
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam
Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders
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Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
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 Expectation Mapping.
Facilitation
Expectation Mapping