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Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Paper illustration for Kepner-Tregoe
Operations
Kepner-Tregoe
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 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.For a disturbance that's hard to pin down, the method cleanly separates problem, cause, and decision. It reduces mixing when symptoms allow several interpretations.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
Ongoing45-90 min2-8 h
Participantsdifferent
1-204-122-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesSailboat Board, Risks, Improvement ActionsProblem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk Plan
Tagsno overlap
SignalsOperationsVisual management
RetrospectiveTeamImprovement
Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations
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Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
A structured reflection surfaces what was liked, learned, lacked, and longed for. It is a conversation format and does not validate actions automatically.
Agile
4Ls Retrospective