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| Criterion |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Team Design Team Cognitive Load Assessment |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Agile Sailboat 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 juggles too many domains, systems, or handoffs, it measures mental overload as an organizational problem. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a cognitive-load profile and action list. | When a team's or workshop's mood needs to become readable, it structures emotional signals with little setup. It makes strain, relief, and sources of energy tangible. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 60-90 min | 30-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 3-12 | 3-10 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Cognitive Load Profile, Action List | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions |
Tags1 shared | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | TeamComplexityImprovementDiagnosis | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement |