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Criterion
Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Paper illustration of an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
Knowledge Modeling
IBIS
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 knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.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.IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighHighMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend1-4 Wochen90-180 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
16-30 Experten3-82-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesCoD Table, Prioritization SequenceIssue Map, Positions, Argument Notes
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
RationaleKnowledgeDecision
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