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Criterion
Paper illustration of Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
A structured reflection surfaces what was liked, learned, lacked, and longed for. It is a conversation format and does not validate actions automatically.
Agile
4Ls Retrospective
Paper illustration for Learning Review.
Operations
Learning Review
Purposedifferent
When expectations between teams stay fuzzy, it describes how a team can be reached, used, and held accountable. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Team API document.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.After a project phase with mixed results, the method makes learning from the individual case reusable. It connects events, decisions, and systemic conditions into robust insights.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
Half day initial, dann laufend45–75 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
Ein Team plus StakeholderTeam members involved3-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Team API Document4Ls Board, Learning Themes, Improvement ActionsLearning Review Notes, System Factors, Improvement Actions
Tagsno overlap
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
RetrospectiveLearningReflectionTeam
LearningRetrospectiveIncidentOperations
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Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
Paper illustration of a review with planned work, actual event sequence, comparison, and assigned improvement actions.
Operations
After-Action Review
Blameless Postmortem workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
DevOps
Blameless Postmortem