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| Criterion |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Agile 4Ls 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. | ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 45–75 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | Team members involved |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | 4Ls Board, Learning Themes, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | RetrospectiveLearningReflectionTeam |
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