{
  "id": "ws-activity-start-stop-continue",
  "name": "Start Stop Continue",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "type": "pre-post",
  "unit": "team",
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "scoring": {
    "method": "sum",
    "reverse_scored_items": [
      "sc-03"
    ],
    "range": [
      6,
      30
    ],
    "reported": [
      "team_delta",
      "construct_deltas"
    ],
    "report_note": "Report team-level deltas across cycles only. Never rank teams — the retro measures the team's honesty habits, not facilitation quality."
  },
  "timing": {
    "pre_minutes": 2,
    "activity_minutes": 30,
    "post_minutes": 2
  },
  "language": "en",
  "description": "Two-minute pre/post measure for the Start·Stop·Continue retrospective. Scores at team level: how did honesty of feedback, behavior-over-person framing and commitment quality change across the retro?",
  "instructions": {
    "pre": "Before cards are dealt. Each participant answers alone, about their own last cycle at work — not about the retro.",
    "post": "Immediately after the debrief. Same items, now answered about the retro just completed, as a team."
  },
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "sc-01",
      "construct": "honesty",
      "pre_text": "I say what is not working while it is still working-ish.",
      "post_text": "The STOP pile was honest — cards named real problems.",
      "reverse": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sc-02",
      "construct": "behavior-framing",
      "pre_text": "I describe behaviors, not people, when something goes wrong.",
      "post_text": "Every card on the wall named a behavior — none named a person.",
      "reverse": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sc-03",
      "construct": "safety-hiding",
      "pre_text": "I soften feedback until it stops meaning anything.",
      "post_text": "Some cards were softened until they meant nothing — we caught them.",
      "reverse": true
    },
    {
      "id": "sc-04",
      "construct": "commitment-quality",
      "pre_text": "Our action items survive the meeting they were born in.",
      "post_text": "All three commitments passed the one-line test: auditable by anyone.",
      "reverse": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sc-05",
      "construct": "shared-recognition",
      "pre_text": "We tell each other what is working, not just what is broken.",
      "post_text": "The CONTINUE pile named things the team wants to protect.",
      "reverse": false
    },
    {
      "id": "sc-06",
      "construct": "retro-worth",
      "pre_text": "Retrospectives on this team change something.",
      "post_text": "This retro ended with three commitments that will be audited.",
      "reverse": false
    }
  ],
  "scale": {
    "type": "likert-5",
    "labels": [
      "never",
      "rarely",
      "sometimes",
      "often",
      "always"
    ]
  },
  "report": {
    "title": "Start·Stop·Continue — team honesty delta",
    "sections": [
      "Wall shape: pile sizes, echo clusters, pocketed cards",
      "Construct deltas with item-level evidence",
      "The three commitments, restated in one auditable line each"
    ]
  }
}