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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Paper illustration of Team Topologies Interaction Modes with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team Topologies Interaction Modes
Paper illustration for Starfish Retrospective
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 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 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
MediumLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend45-90 minHalf day45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
14-12Team-Leads plus Architecture4-12
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveSailboat Board, Risks, Improvement ActionsInteraction Heat Map, Agreements per PairStarfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
RetrospectiveTeamImprovement
TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
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