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Criterion
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
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.The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list.When two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowHigh
Timedifferent
45-90 min5-15 min1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
4-121-51-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Starfish Board, Practice Changes, ExperimentsVC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summary
Tagsno overlap
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
StartupValidationCompetition
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
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Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
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Product Discovery
Smoke Test
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