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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Causal Loop Diagram Root Cause Analysis Causal Factor Analysis

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Systems Thinking Causal Loop Diagram	Operations Root Cause Analysis	Operations Causal Factor 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.	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.	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.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Medium	High
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-3 h	1-4 h	2-6 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8	3-8	3-10
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Causal Loop Diagram, Feedback Notes, Leverage Points	Problem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan	Event Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	FeedbackSystems thinkingCausalityDynamics	Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident	CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline

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