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| Criterion | ![]() Knowledge Modeling PARA Method | ![]() Operations Kepner-Tregoe | ![]() Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | For a disturbance that's hard to pin down, the method cleanly separates problem, cause, and decision. It reduces mixing when symptoms allow several interpretations. | When improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h Setup, laufend | 2-8 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1 | 2-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge Archive | Problem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk Plan | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | KnowledgeProductivityOrganization | Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |
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