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| Criterion |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas |  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 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 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 | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 60-120 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-12 | 2-8 | 4-12 |
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 | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement |