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Criterion
Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Paper illustration for Learning Review.
Operations
Learning Review
The Scrum Team inspects people, interactions, processes, tools, and the Definition of Done, then agrees on a few testable improvements.
Agile
Sprint 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.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.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 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.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
Ongoing45-90 min1-3 hUp to 3 hours for a one-month Sprint; shorter Sprints are usually shorter
Participantsdifferent
1-204-123-10Scrum Team
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesSailboat Board, Risks, Improvement ActionsLearning Review Notes, System Factors, Improvement ActionsImprovement actions, Team agreements
Tagsno overlap
SignalsOperationsVisual management
RetrospectiveTeamImprovement
LearningRetrospectiveIncidentOperations
RetrospectiveImprovementLearning
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