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| Criterion |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Innovation TRIZ |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  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. | For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles. | 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 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 | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 1-4 h | 30-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 2-8 | 3-10 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution Concepts | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement |