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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Evaporating Cloud Causal Factor Analysis Causal Loop Diagram

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Systems Thinking Evaporating Cloud	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.	The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.	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	Medium	High	Medium
Timedifferent	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	60-120 min	2-6 h	1-3 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8	3-10	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	Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments	Event Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions	Causal Loop Diagram, Feedback Notes, Leverage Points
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking	CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline	FeedbackSystems thinkingCausalityDynamics

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