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| Criterion |  Knowledge Modeling PARA Method |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Operations Getting Things Done |  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. | When a team wants to read momentum, brakes, and risks together, it offers an easily understandable picture of the situation. It makes drive, obstacles, and headwind visible in the same picture. | With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory. | 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 | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h Setup, laufend | 45-90 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1 | 4-12 | 1 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge Archive | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Action Lists, Project List, Review Routine | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | KnowledgeProductivityOrganization | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |