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| Criterion |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Operations A3 Problem Solving |  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. | For a complex deviation with several people involved, the method bundles problem, analysis, and decision onto one page. It creates a shared working space where causes, countermeasures, and follow-up fit together. | 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 | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 2-5 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | A3 Report, Action Plan, Root Cause Analysis | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | LeanProblem solvingCoachingOperations | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |
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