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Selected:Behavior Over Time Graph Causal Loop Diagram ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Current Reality Tree

Criterion	Systems Thinking Behavior Over Time Graph	Systems Thinking Causal Loop Diagram	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Systems Thinking Current Reality Tree
Purposedifferent	A Behavior Over Time Graph shows how a metric or observation develops over time. The method makes trends, breaks, and recurring patterns visible that get lost in snapshots.	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.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Low	Medium	Medium	High
Timedifferent	20-45 min	1-3 h	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	2-6 h
Participantsdifferent	1-10	2-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Behavior Over Time Graph, Trend Hypotheses, Key Events	Causal Loop Diagram, Feedback Notes, Leverage Points	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas
Tagsno overlap	Systems thinkingPatternsDynamics	FeedbackSystems thinkingCausalityDynamics	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality

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