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| Criterion |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Facilitation Lean Coffee |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a group without a fixed agenda needs to get into useful conversations quickly, Lean Coffee structures the start around interests rather than a presentation. The group itself negotiates which topics get time first and which wait. | 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 a team's or workshop's mood needs to become readable, it structures emotional signals with little setup. It makes strain, relief, and sources of energy tangible. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 30-90 min | 45-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-20 | 4-12 | 3-10 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Prioritized Topics, Discussion Notes, Action Items | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | FacilitationAutonomyDialogue | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | RetrospectiveTeamReflection |