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Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
Paper illustration for Learning Review.
Operations
Learning 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 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.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing45-90 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1-204-123-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesStarfish Board, Practice Changes, ExperimentsLearning Review Notes, System Factors, Improvement Actions
Tagsno overlap
SignalsOperationsVisual management
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
LearningRetrospectiveIncidentOperations
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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
Paper illustration of a review with planned work, actual event sequence, comparison, and assigned improvement actions.
Operations
After-Action Review
Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
The Scrum Team inspects people, interactions, processes, tools, and the Definition of Done, then agrees on a few testable improvements.
Agile
Sprint Retrospective