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| Criterion |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas |  Agile 4Ls 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 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. | The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design. | When a sprint should not only be assessed but also learned from, it captures experience in clear learning categories. It records what worked, what's missing, and what should run differently next time. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 60-120 min | 45–75 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-12 | 2-8 | Team members involved |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan | 4Ls Board, Learning Themes, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas | RetrospectiveLearningReflectionTeam |