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Selected:Evaporating Cloud ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Delphi Method Causal Loop Diagram

Criterion	Systems Thinking Evaporating Cloud	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Decision Making Delphi Method	Systems Thinking Causal Loop Diagram
Purposedifferent	The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.	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.	When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.	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	Medium	High	Medium
Timedifferent	60-120 min	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-4 Wochen	1-3 h
Participantsdifferent	2-8	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	6-30 Experten	2-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop + async	Async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes	Causal Loop Diagram, Feedback Notes, Leverage Points
Tagsno overlap	Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy	FeedbackSystems thinkingCausalityDynamics

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