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| Criterion |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Agile 4Ls Retrospective |  Operations Getting Things Done |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | When a sprint should not only be assessed but also learned from, it captures experience in clear learning categories. It records what worked, what's missing, and what should run differently next time. | With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 45–75 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | Team members involved | 1 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | 4Ls Board, Learning Themes, Improvement Actions | Action Lists, Project List, Review Routine | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | RetrospectiveLearningReflectionTeam | ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |