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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
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
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.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend1-4 Wochen30-90 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
16-30 Experten1-62-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption ListDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report
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KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
DecisionTreeOptions
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