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Criterion
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
Paper illustration of a review with planned work, actual event sequence, comparison, and assigned improvement actions.
Operations
After-Action Review
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.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.
Complexitysame
LowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
4-123-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Starfish Board, Practice Changes, ExperimentsLessons learned, Action items, Event summary
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RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
LearningOperationsImprovement
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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 Learning Review.
Operations
Learning Review
Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
The Scrum Team inspects people, interactions, processes, tools, and the Definition of Done, then agrees on a few testable improvements.
Agile
Sprint Retrospective