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Criterion
Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Six paper cards show a person moving from a problem through a service flow to a completed outcome.
UX Design
Storyboarding
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
Knowledge Modeling
IBIS
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 usage scenario needs to become understandable early, it condenses situations, context, and flow into a legible sequence. It helps check concept ideas before anything gets built.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend30-90 min1-4 Wochen1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
11-86-30 Experten2-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveStoryboard, Concept Narrative, Testable AssumptionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesIssue Map, Positions, Argument Notes
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
VisualizationConceptsSequencePrototype
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
RationaleKnowledgeDecision
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