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Paper illustration for Working Agreements.
Agile
Working Agreements
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
Purposedifferent
When collaboration needs more than implicit expectations, it lays out shared ground rules openly. It creates reliability for conduct, availability, and decision paths.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.
Complexitysame
LowLow
Timesame
45-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-124-12
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Working Agreements, Team Norms, Review CadenceStarfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments
Tags1 shared
TeamCollaborationAgile
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
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Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat 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