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Selected:Start Stop ContinueSailboat RetrospectiveStarfish RetrospectiveTeam Cognitive Load Assessment
| Criterion |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Team Design Team Cognitive Load Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | 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 juggles too many domains, systems, or handoffs, it measures mental overload as an organizational problem. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a cognitive-load profile and action list. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-12 | 4-12 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Cognitive Load Profile, Action List |
Tags2 shared | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | TeamComplexityImprovementDiagnosis |