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Selected:Strategy Execution LoopSailboat RetrospectiveLASR (Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews)Starfish Retrospective
| Criterion |  Business Strategy Strategy Execution Loop |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Architecture LASR (Lightweight Approach for Software Reviews) |  Agile Starfish 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. | 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. | LASR helps development teams identify where their software falls short of important quality goals and which improvements to consider. A small group with existing system knowledge can make an initial assessment and investigate open questions in more detail. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Initial 3-6 h, then monthly or quarterly reviews | 45-90 min | 3–4 h for initial assessment; preparation and deeper analysis additional | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 4-12 | 1 or a small team; particularly suitable for 3–4 people | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Execution Loop, Review Cadence, Strategic Learning Log | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Lean Mission Statement describing the software’s purpose, Prioritized quality goals and evaluation criteria, Risks and estimated gaps against quality goals, More closely examined findings and open checks | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | ExecutionCadenceLearningGovernance | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | ArchitectureQualityRiskAssessmentLean | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |