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Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
Context Map workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Domain Modeling
Context Map
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 Starfish Retrospective
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 several contexts need to talk to each other, it makes their relationships and dependencies legible. It helps sort integration pressure and responsibilities across system boundaries.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.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
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min1-3 h45–75 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-122-8Team members involved4-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement ActionsContext Map, Integration Patterns, Boundary Notes4Ls Board, Learning Themes, Improvement ActionsStarfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments
Tagsno overlap
RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection
Domain-Driven DesignBoundariesStrategy
RetrospectiveLearningReflectionTeam
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
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