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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Behavior Over Time Graph Current Reality Tree Iceberg Model

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Systems Thinking Behavior Over Time Graph	Systems Thinking Current Reality Tree	Systems Thinking Iceberg Model
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.	A Behavior Over Time Graph shows how a metric or observation develops over time. The method makes trends, breaks, and recurring patterns visible that get lost in snapshots.	A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.	The Iceberg Model separates visible events from patterns, structures, and mental models. This turns a single observation into a deeper understanding of why a problem keeps recurring.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	High	Low
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	20-45 min	2-6 h	30-60 min
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-10	3-8	2-10
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Behavior Over Time Graph, Trend Hypotheses, Key Events	Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas	Iceberg Worksheet, Pattern Notes, Intervention Ideas
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	Systems thinkingPatternsDynamics	Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality	Systems thinkingRoot causePatterns

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