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| Criterion | ![]() Business Strategy Strategy Execution Loop | ![]() Delivery RAID Log | ![]() Agile Starfish Retrospective | ![]() Agile Sprint Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Strategy Execution Loop helps avoid treating strategy as a one-off document. It makes visible how strategic decisions are turned into objectives, initiatives, operational work, measurement, and learning. | Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting. | 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 is over and friction shouldn't simply be carried forward, it opens the view onto collaboration and patterns. It creates space to see causes and changes together. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Initial 3-6 h, then monthly or quarterly reviews | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 45-90 min | Up to 3 hours for a one-month Sprint; shorter Sprints are usually shorter |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 4-12 | Scrum Team |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Execution Loop, Review Cadence, Strategic Learning Log | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Improvement actions, Team agreements |
Tagsno overlap | ExecutionCadenceLearningGovernance | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | RetrospectiveImprovementLearning |



