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Selected:PARA Method Business Model Stress Test ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Assumption Mapping

Criterion	Knowledge Modeling PARA Method	Business Strategy Business Model Stress Test	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Product Discovery Assumption Mapping
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.	A Business Model Stress Test checks how well a business model holds up under pressure and headwinds. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a stress-test report and action plan per scenario.	ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.	When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	High	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	1-3 h Setup, laufend	Half day	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	45-60 min
Participantsdifferent	1	3-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8
Formatdifferent	Async	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge Archive	Stress Test Report, Action Plan per Scenario	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking
Tagsno overlap	KnowledgeProductivityOrganization	StrategyBusiness modelRiskDiagnosis	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation

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