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| Criterion |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Facilitation Open Space Technology |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Agile Sailboat 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 a complex topic does not yet have a fitting agenda, Open Space Technology hands topic ownership back to the participants. The format suits questions that only move forward when real interest determines the order. | 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 wants to read momentum, brakes, and risks together, it offers an easily understandable picture of the situation. It makes drive, obstacles, and headwind visible in the same picture. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 0.5-2 Tage | 45-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 20-500+ | 4-12 | 4-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Session Marketplace, Proceedings, Action Topics | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | FacilitationLarge groupAutonomy | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement |