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| Criterion | ![]() Team Design Team Cognitive Load Assessment | ![]() Agile Sprint Retrospective | ![]() Operations Learning Review | ![]() Agile 4Ls 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 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. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-90 min | Up to 3 hours for a one-month Sprint; shorter Sprints are usually shorter | 1-3 h | 45–75 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | Scrum Team | 3-10 | Team members involved |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Cognitive Load Profile, Action List | Improvement actions, Team agreements | Learning Review Notes, System Factors, Improvement Actions | 4Ls Board, Learning Themes, Improvement Actions |
Tagsno overlap | TeamComplexityImprovementDiagnosis | RetrospectiveImprovementLearning | LearningRetrospectiveIncidentOperations | RetrospectiveLearningReflectionTeam |



