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| Criterion |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |  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 problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. | 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 | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 60-180 min | 1-3 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-20 | 1-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | SensemakingDecisionRationale | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |