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| Criterion |  Operations Visual Management |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Operations 5 Whys |
|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | For a single, hard-to-explain deviation, the method exposes the causal chain behind the visible symptom. It keeps the cause open until a controllable condition emerges instead of a mere description. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 45-90 min | 15-30 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-20 | 4-12 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception Cues | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Root cause notes, Countermeasures |
Tagsno overlap | SignalsOperationsVisual management | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | Root causeIncidentLeanProblem solving |
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