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Selected:Team Cognitive Load AssessmentSailboat RetrospectiveAfter-Action ReviewStarfish Retrospective
| Criterion |  Team Design Team Cognitive Load Assessment |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Operations After-Action Review |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a team juggles too many domains, systems, or handoffs, it measures mental overload as an organizational problem. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a cognitive-load profile and action list. | 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. | After missions or project phases with unclear outcomes, the method makes visible what actually happened and what can be learned from it. It separates course, effect, and causes so experience turns into solid improvement. | 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 | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-90 min | 45-90 min | 20-45 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-12 | 3-12 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Cognitive Load Profile, Action List | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Lessons learned, Action items, Event summary | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tags1 shared | TeamComplexityImprovementDiagnosis | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | LearningOperationsImprovement | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |