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Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture Canvas
Paper illustration for Mad Sad Glad
Agile
Mad Sad Glad
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish 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.The Software Architecture Canvas reduces a system to the most important architecture decisions, constraints, and interfaces. It is useful when teams need a resilient overall picture quickly.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.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.
Complexitysame
LowLowLowLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min1-2 h30-60 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
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Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement ActionsArchitecture Canvas, Goals, Constraints, Quality AttributesEmotion Board, Themes, Action ItemsStarfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments
Tagsno overlap
RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection
CanvasArchitectureAlignmentWorkshop
RetrospectiveTeamReflection
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
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