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| Criterion |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Facilitation Team Charter |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Team Design Team Topologies Interaction Modes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 is starting fresh or working past each other, Team Charter clarifies the shared working basis. It visibly sets out how collaboration, decision paths, and mutual conduct should work day to day. | 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. | When several teams collaborate repeatedly, it describes the right interaction mode for each interface between them. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as an interaction heat map and pairwise agreements. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 2-4 h | 45-90 min | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 3-12 | 4-12 | Team-Leads plus Architecture |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Interaction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair |
Tags1 shared | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization |