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| Criterion | ![]() Agile Starfish Retrospective | ![]() Facilitation Responsibility Poker | ![]() Agile Sprint Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|
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 it stays unclear who carries responsibility and who only contributes, Responsibility Poker makes the distribution of responsibility explicit. It sharpens the boundaries between weighing in, deciding, and bearing consequences. | When a sprint is over and friction shouldn't simply be carried forward, it opens the view onto collaboration and patterns. It creates space to see causes and changes together. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | Up to 3 hours for a one-month Sprint; shorter Sprints are usually shorter |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 3-10 | Scrum Team |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Responsibility Map, Role Agreements, Open Questions | Improvement actions, Team agreements |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | RolesResponsibilityTeamFacilitation | RetrospectiveImprovementLearning |
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