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Criterion
Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration for Learning Review.
Operations
Learning Review
Paper illustration of a review with planned work, actual event sequence, comparison, and assigned improvement actions.
Operations
After-Action Review
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.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.After a project phase with mixed results, the method makes learning from the individual case reusable. It connects events, decisions, and systemic conditions into robust insights.After missions or project phases with unclear outcomes, the method makes visible what actually happened and what can be learned from it. It separates course, effect, and causes so experience turns into solid improvement.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min1-2 h Setup, laufend1-3 h20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
3-1213-103-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement ActionsAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineLearning Review Notes, System Factors, Improvement ActionsLessons learned, Action items, Event summary
Tagsno overlap
RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
LearningRetrospectiveIncidentOperations
LearningOperationsImprovement
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