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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)C4 Model Root Cause Tree Analysis Root Cause Analysis

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Architecture C4 Model	Operations Root Cause Tree Analysis	Operations Root Cause Analysis
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.	The C4 Model makes a system legible across several resolution levels, from context down to code. It suits situations where different audiences need to understand the same architecture from different altitudes.	For a problem with several suspected causes, the method builds a causal structure instead of a mere list. It makes visible how causes connect and where the strongest points of leverage lie.	When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Low	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-4 h	1-3 h	1-4 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	1-5	2-8	3-8
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	Context Diagram, Container Diagram, Component Diagram	Cause Tree, Evidence Notes, Countermeasures	Problem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ArchitectureCommunicationVisualization	Root causeTreeIncidentQuality	Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident

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