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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of KPI Tree with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
KPI Tree
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 demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small.When metrics across the organization drift apart, it arranges drivers and effects under one shared logic. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a KPI tree and owner list.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend1-5 Tage90-180 min initial, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
1Nutzertraffic3-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning DecisionKPI Tree, Owner List
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KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
MetricsStrategyAlignmentMeasurement
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Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
Engineering
Goal Question Metric
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card