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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration of Team Topologies Interaction Modes with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team Topologies Interaction Modes
Paper illustration for Working Agreements.
Agile
Working Agreements
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 work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List.When several teams collaborate repeatedly, it describes the right interaction mode for each interface between them. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as an interaction heat map and pairwise agreements.When collaboration needs more than implicit expectations, it lays out shared ground rules openly. It creates reliability for conduct, availability, and decision paths.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend20-40 min initial, dann laufendHalf day45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
13-15Team-Leads plus Architecture3-12
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveROAM Board, Owner ListInteraction Heat Map, Agreements per PairWorking Agreements, Team Norms, Review Cadence
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization
TeamCollaborationAgile
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