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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper illustration for Working Agreements.
Agile
Working Agreements
Paper illustration of Team Topologies Interaction Modes with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team Topologies Interaction Modes
Paper illustration of the McKinsey 7S Framework with seven connected fields
Business Strategy
McKinsey 7S
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 collaboration needs more than implicit expectations, it lays out shared ground rules openly. It creates reliability for conduct, availability, and decision paths.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.McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend45-90 minHalf day2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
13-12Team-Leads plus Architecture3-12
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveWorking Agreements, Team Norms, Review CadenceInteraction Heat Map, Agreements per Pair7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
TeamCollaborationAgile
TeamAlignmentCollaborationOrganization
OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange
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