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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Architecture Decision Record Causal Factor Analysis Causal Loop Diagram

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Operations Causal Factor Analysis	Systems Thinking Causal Loop Diagram
Purposedifferent	ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.	An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.	For an event with a complicated course, the method breaks down the contributing factors along the timeline. It shows how conditions, decisions, and reactions together produce a course of events.	A Causal Loop Diagram makes feedback, reinforcement, and balance in a system legible. It uncovers side effects and self-reinforcement that stay hidden in linear explanations.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	High	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	15-45 min	2-6 h	1-3 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-3	3-10	2-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Async	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Event Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions	Causal Loop Diagram, Feedback Notes, Leverage Points
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline	FeedbackSystems thinkingCausalityDynamics

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