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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper illustration of a Concept Map with concepts and labelled links
Knowledge Modeling
Concept Mapping
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming
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.Concept Mapping arranges terms and relationships in a network that makes subject-matter connections tangible. It fits when a topic needs to be understood structurally rather than linearly.Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list.When a domain consists of many events, rules, and states, it creates a shared modeling space for the team. It bundles language, flows, and boundaries before domain knowledge fragments into siloed views.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend1-2 h30-60 min2-8 h
Participantsdifferent
11-83-105-12
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveConcept Map, Relationship Labels, Knowledge GapsStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption ListEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
KnowledgeConceptsMappingSensemaking
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
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