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Selected:Causal Loop Diagram Views and Beyond Architecture Decision Record ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)

Criterion	Systems Thinking Causal Loop Diagram	Architecture Views and Beyond	Architecture Architecture Decision Record	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
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.	Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question.	An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.	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.
Complexitydifferent	Medium	Medium	Low	Medium
Timedifferent	1-3 h	1-3 Tage	15-45 min	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional
Participantsdifferent	2-8	1-4	1-3	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop + async	Async	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Causal Loop Diagram, Feedback Notes, Leverage Points	Architecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale	ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions
Tagsno overlap	FeedbackSystems thinkingCausalityDynamics	DocumentationStakeholdersArchitecture	ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks

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