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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 a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
Agile
Starfish Retrospective
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.When a team wants to deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend60-120 min30-60 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
12-83-124-12
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveCommunication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication PlanStart Stop Continue Board, Improvement ActionsStarfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas
RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
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