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| Criterion |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  DevOps Blameless Postmortem |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Operations Learning 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 an incident with damage or a near miss, the method creates a sober field for learning without assigning blame. It directs attention to the course of events, conditions, and effective countermeasures. | 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. | After a project phase with mixed results, the method makes learning from the individual case reusable. It connects events, decisions, and systemic conditions into robust insights. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-90 min | 45-90 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 3-12 | 4-12 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Postmortem Doc, Action Items, Timeline | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Learning Review Notes, System Factors, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | Site Reliability EngineeringIncidentLearningReliability | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | LearningRetrospectiveIncidentOperations |