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| Criterion |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Facilitation World Café |  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. | When a group needs to connect many viewpoints in a short time, World Café creates a calm alternation between closeness and rotation. It sets thinking in motion without forcing the conversation into full-plenary rigidity. | 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 | 60-180 min | 45–75 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-12 | 12-100+ | Team members involved |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Table Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared Questions | 4Ls Board, Learning Themes, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking | RetrospectiveLearningReflectionTeam |