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| Criterion |  Knowledge Modeling PARA Method |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Operations MORT Analysis |  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. | For a safety-relevant event or a system with high protection requirements, the method examines where controls failed. It exposes both technical and organizational gaps. | 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 | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h Setup, laufend | 45-90 min | Mehrere Tage bis Wochen | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1 | 4-12 | 2-6 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge Archive | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | MORT Worksheets, Findings per Branch, Corrective Actions, Systemic Recommendations | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | KnowledgeProductivityOrganization | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | Root causeSafetySystemicIncident | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |