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| Criterion |  Operations Visual Management |  Systems Thinking Futures Wheel |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With high tempo and many parallel topics, the method makes status, deviations, and priorities visible at a glance. It reduces search effort and prevents what matters from getting lost in daily work. | The Futures Wheel helps explore the consequences of a decision, a trend, or a strategic move in a structured way. It makes visible which first, second, and third-order effects could arise from an event. | When a team wants to deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood. | 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 | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 60-120 min | 30-60 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-20 | 3-10 | 3-12 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception Cues | Futures Wheel, Consequence Chains, Strategic Signals | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | SignalsOperationsVisual management | ForesightSystems thinkingSignals | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |