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Selected:ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Future Reality Tree Leverage Points Causal Loop Diagram

Criterion	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Systems Thinking Future Reality Tree	Systems Thinking Leverage Points	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 Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.	Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy.	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	2-4 h	Half day	1-3 h
Participantsdifferent	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-8	3-12	2-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Future Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections	Leverage Map, Action Strategy	Causal Loop Diagram, Feedback Notes, Leverage Points
Tagsno overlap	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange	Systems thinkingChangeStrategy	FeedbackSystems thinkingCausalityDynamics

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