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Selected:Team Cognitive Load AssessmentSailboat RetrospectiveSpotify Model MappingStarfish Retrospective
| Criterion |  Team Design Team Cognitive Load Assessment |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Team Design Spotify Model Mapping |  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. | When a team landscape has grown without clear grouping, it maps roles and relationships onto the Spotify model. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Spotify model map and action list. | 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 | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-90 min | 45-90 min | 90-180 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-12 | 5-15 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Cognitive Load Profile, Action List | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Spotify Model Map, Action List | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tags1 shared | TeamComplexityImprovementDiagnosis | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | TeamOrganizationAlignmentDiagnosis | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |