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Define It Together.  Revisit It As You Go.

Part of The PARIS Method — for teams

 

A plan that lives in one person's head isn't the same as one a team has actually agreed on. And a project's Problem and Result aren't fixed the day it starts — they're worth checking, out loud, as the work reveals what it's really asking of you.

 

Think of Mei's team — a product manager, a local operations lead, a designer, and an engineering lead dialing in from another timezone — defining their shared PARIS in week one, and having to revisit it in week three when the real problem turned out to be bigger than anyone had named. That honest mid-project conversation is what let them make a deliberate trade-off instead of watching a deadline quietly slip. [Read the full story →]

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What you'll get

A short, practical guide for running a PARIS session with your own team — as a facilitator, or as a team lead running it yourself. It walks through:

 

  • How to open the conversation — getting the team to a shared Problem and Result, not just a task list

  • What to listen for — the signals that a Problem or Result needs revisiting, not just defending

  • How to check in mid-project — a short set of questions to bring back to the team partway through, before the retrospective

  • A one-page template you can print or share, for defining and later revisiting your team's PARIS

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Download

[Team PARIS Session Guide — PDF]

 

Free to download. No signup required.

Before you start

 

How it works

This is one application of the PARIS Method — Problem, Action, Result, Insights, Skills — used collectively rather than individually. The guide assumes no prior familiarity with PARIS; it's written so you can run the session cold.

 

Want it facilitated instead?

If you'd rather have someone guide your team through this the first time — especially for a high-stakes project — I facilitate these sessions directly. 

 

Your language.

The guide is currently available in English. If you'd like it in Chinese or German, let me know.

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Other Ways to Use PARIS

Want to see how this same approach works for telling your own story, coaching someone else, or planning before you start? [Explore the other views of PARIS]

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Questions or feedback? feedback@career-factory.co

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