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

Criterion	Systems Thinking Causal Loop Diagram	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Systems Thinking Leverage Points	Systems Thinking Current Reality Tree
Purposedifferent	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.	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 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	Medium	Medium	High	High
Timedifferent	1-3 h	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	Half day	2-6 h
Participantsdifferent	2-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-12	3-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Causal Loop Diagram, Feedback Notes, Leverage Points	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Leverage Map, Action Strategy	Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas
Tagsno overlap	FeedbackSystems thinkingCausalityDynamics	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	Systems thinkingChangeStrategy	Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality

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