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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Paper illustration of Specification by Example with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Specification by Example
Paper illustration for Working Agreements.
Agile
Working Agreements
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 story, test, and implementation could drift apart, it brings business perspective, engineering, and quality together early. It prevents a story from being read differently only late in the process.When business rules need to become precise, it ties language, example, and test together. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as an Example Table and Acceptance Tests.When collaboration needs more than implicit expectations, it lays out shared ground rules openly. It creates reliability for conduct, availability, and decision paths.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend15-30 min60-90 min pro Feature45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
133-63-12
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveClarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsExample Table, Acceptance TestsWorking Agreements, Team Norms, Review Cadence
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
AgileRequirementsExamplesBehavior-Driven Development
TeamCollaborationAgile
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