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

Criterion	Systems Thinking Leverage Points	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Systems Thinking Current Reality Tree	Operations Causal Factor Analysis
Purposedifferent	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.	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.	For an event with a complicated course, the method breaks down the contributing factors along the timeline. It shows how conditions, decisions, and reactions together produce a course of events.
Complexitydifferent	High	Medium	High	High
Timedifferent	Half day	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	2-6 h	2-6 h
Participantsdifferent	3-12	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	3-8	3-10
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop	Workshop + async
Outputdifferent	Leverage Map, Action Strategy	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas	Event Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions
Tagsno overlap	Systems thinkingChangeStrategy	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality	CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline

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