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Criterion	Business Strategy Strategic, Tactical and Operational Planning	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Agile Starfish Retrospective	Agile 4Ls Retrospective
Purposedifferent	It places decisions and artifacts at the right level. Strategic planning clarifies direction, tactical planning translates it into programs, and operational planning steers concrete processes.	An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.	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 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	Medium	Low	Low	Low
Timedifferent	90-180 min	15-45 min	45-90 min	45–75 min
Participantsdifferent	4-12	1-3	4-12	Team members involved
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Async	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Planning Levels Map, Cadence Model, Planning Artifact Inventory	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments	4Ls Board, Learning Themes, Improvement Actions
Tagsno overlap	CadenceGovernanceExecution	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam	RetrospectiveLearningReflectionTeam