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| Criterion |  Knowledge Modeling PARA Method |  Agile Mad Sad Glad |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Team Design Spotify Model Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 team's or workshop's mood needs to become readable, it structures emotional signals with little setup. It makes strain, relief, and sources of energy tangible. | 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. | When a team landscape has grown without clear grouping, it maps roles and relationships onto the Spotify model. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Spotify model map and action list. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h Setup, laufend | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1 | 3-10 | 4-12 | 5-15 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge Archive | Emotion Board, Themes, Action Items | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Spotify Model Map, Action List |
Tagsno overlap | KnowledgeProductivityOrganization | RetrospectiveTeamReflection | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | TeamOrganizationAlignmentDiagnosis |