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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Family Tree Analysis Causal Loop Diagram Causal Factor Analysis

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Operations Family Tree Analysis	Systems Thinking Causal Loop Diagram	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.	For a series of incidents with a similar pattern, the method arranges individual events as branches of a common origin. It makes visible which conditions keep recurring.	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.	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	2-4 h	1-3 h	2-6 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-6	2-8	3-10
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	Family Tree Diagram, Pattern Notes, Systemic Measures	Causal Loop Diagram, Feedback Notes, Leverage Points	Event Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	Root causePatternsIncidentSystemic	FeedbackSystems thinkingCausalityDynamics	CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline

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