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Criterion
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
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.When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable.
Complexitydifferent
LowMedium
Timesame
45-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-121-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Starfish Board, Practice Changes, ExperimentsLean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog
Tagsno overlap
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
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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 of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping