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| Criterion |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Knowledge Modeling IBIS |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 1-3 h | 45-90 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 2-8 | 4-12 | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Issue Map, Positions, Argument Notes | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | RationaleKnowledgeDecision | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | SensemakingDecisionRationale |