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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
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.Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend90-180 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
13-82-6
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveCoD Table, Prioritization SequenceCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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