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Criterion
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 of shared options, independently placed voting dots, and a highlighted shortlist.
Facilitation
Dot Voting
Paper illustration for Eat the Frog
Operations
Eat the Frog
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 a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection.The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend90-180 min5-15 min15-90 min daily
Participantsdifferent
13-83-201
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveCoD Table, Prioritization SequenceRanked list, Consensus signal, ShortlistPriority Task, Completion Note, Daily Focus
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization
PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution
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