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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
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 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
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufendHalf day45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1Team-Leads plus Architecture4-12
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveInteraction Heat Map, Agreements per PairStarfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization
RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam
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Paper illustration for Sailboat Retrospective
Agile
Sailboat Retrospective
Paper illustration of Spotify Model Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Spotify Model Mapping
Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
Paper illustration for Team Charter.
Facilitation
Team Charter