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Criterion
Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
Paper illustration for Mad Sad Glad
Agile
Mad Sad Glad
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
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.When a team's or workshop's mood needs to become readable, it structures emotional signals with little setup. It makes strain, relief, and sources of energy tangible.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
Ongoing30-60 min1-2 h Setup, laufend30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1-203-1013-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesEmotion Board, Themes, Action ItemsAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineStart Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions
Tagsno overlap
SignalsOperationsVisual management
RetrospectiveTeamReflection
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection
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