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| Criterion |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Decision Making Decision Tree |
|---|---|---|---|
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 a team wants to deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood. | For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 3-12 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | DecisionTreeOptions |
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