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Criterion
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
Paper illustration for Team Charter.
Facilitation
Team Charter
The Scrum Team inspects people, interactions, processes, tools, and the Definition of Done, then agrees on a few testable improvements.
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 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 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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min2-4 hUp to 3 hours for a one-month Sprint; shorter Sprints are usually shorter
Participantsdifferent
4-123-12Scrum Team
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Starfish Board, Practice Changes, ExperimentsTeam Charter, Working Norms, Role NotesImprovement actions, Team agreements
Tagsno overlap
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
TeamAlignmentCollaboration
RetrospectiveImprovementLearning
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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 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
Paper illustration of Team Topologies Interaction Modes with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team Topologies Interaction Modes