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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper illustration of Dual Track Agile with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Dual-Track Agile
Paper illustration of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
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 uncertainty and delivery run in parallel, it separates learning work from implementation while keeping both connected. It prevents unvalidated ideas from falling directly into the delivery stream.Shape Up helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow. It makes work boundaries and decisions explicit and captures results as pitches, bet-table decisions, and hill charts.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufendLaufend, Wochen bis Monate6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down
Participantsdifferent
14-102-4 pro Pitch
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveDiscovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte StoriesPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes
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KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
AgileDiscoveryDelivery
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
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Operations
ALPEN Method
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration for Weekly Review.
Operations
Weekly Review