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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Current Reality Tree Stock and Flow Diagram Causal Loop Diagram

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Systems Thinking Current Reality Tree	Systems Thinking Stock and Flow Diagram	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.	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.	A Stock and Flow Diagram shows how stocks, inflows, and outflows shape a system over time. It is especially suited when growth, delays, or capacity limits determine the dynamics.	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	High	High	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	2-6 h	2-6 h	1-3 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-8	1-6	2-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas	Stock and Flow Model, Dynamics Notes, Simulation Hypotheses	Causal Loop Diagram, Feedback Notes, Leverage Points
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality	DynamicsSimulationFeedbackSystems thinking	FeedbackSystems thinkingCausalityDynamics

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