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| Criterion |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Innovation TRIZ |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 1-4 h | 45-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 2-8 | 4-12 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution Concepts | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | RetrospectiveTeamReflection |