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| Criterion | ![]() Knowledge Modeling PARA Method | ![]() Agile Sailboat Retrospective | ![]() Facilitation Team Charter | ![]() 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. | When a team is starting fresh or working past each other, Team Charter clarifies the shared working basis. It visibly sets out how collaboration, decision paths, and mutual conduct should work day to day. | 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 | 2-4 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1 | 4-12 | 3-12 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge Archive | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Team Charter, Working Norms, Role Notes | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | KnowledgeProductivityOrganization | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | TeamAlignmentCollaboration | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |



