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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Purposedifferent
The PARA Method organizes knowledge into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. It creates order when digital notes, files, and tasks no longer cleanly fit current work.The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend60-120 min30 min Setup, dann laufend15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
12-81-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone1-3
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveCommunication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication PlanRAID Log, Status Report SourceADR File, Decision Log, Rationale
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
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