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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
A paper-based illustration representing Domain Storytelling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Domain Storytelling
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.Domain Storytelling translates domain knowledge into a shared narrative of actors, objects, and workflows. It is especially useful when language, rules, and process understanding must be tightly connected.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
MediumHighLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend1-4 Wochen1-2 h1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
16-30 Experten2-82-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesDomain Story, Glossary Notes, Process NarrativeIssue Map, Positions, Argument Notes
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
KnowledgeDomain-Driven DesignProcess
RationaleKnowledgeDecision
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