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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
Paper illustration of the Lotus Blossom working structure.
Innovation
Lotus Blossom
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 domain consists of many events, rules, and states, it creates a shared modeling space for the team. It bundles language, flows, and boundaries before domain knowledge fragments into siloed views.Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list.When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend2-8 h30-60 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
15-123-103-10
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption ListLotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop
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