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Criterion
Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
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.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend60-90 min20-35 min1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
14-101-5Nutzertraffic
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentTest Card with a pre-set thresholdClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
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