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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 Mad Sad Glad
Agile
Mad Sad Glad
Paper illustration of a review with planned work, actual event sequence, comparison, and assigned improvement actions.
Operations
After-Action Review
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.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.After missions or project phases with unclear outcomes, the method makes visible what actually happened and what can be learned from it. It separates course, effect, and causes so experience turns into solid improvement.
Complexitysame
LowLowLowLow
Timedifferent
Ongoing45-90 min30-60 min20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
1-204-123-103-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesSailboat Board, Risks, Improvement ActionsEmotion Board, Themes, Action ItemsLessons learned, Action items, Event summary
Tagsno overlap
SignalsOperationsVisual management
RetrospectiveTeamImprovement
RetrospectiveTeamReflection
LearningOperationsImprovement
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