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Selected:Leverage Points Fault Isolation ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Causal Loop Diagram

Criterion	Systems Thinking Leverage Points	Engineering Fault Isolation	Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)	Systems Thinking Causal Loop Diagram
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.	In technical failures, the visible symptom often gets mixed up with the actual cause. Fault Isolation narrows the fault space and progressively reduces which part of the system is truly affected.	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 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	High	Medium	Medium	Medium
Timedifferent	Half day	30-180 min	2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional	1-3 h
Participantsdifferent	3-12	1-6	Designers, developers as users, and facilitation	2-8
Formatdifferent	Workshop	Workshop + async	Workshop + async	Workshop
Outputdifferent	Leverage Map, Action Strategy	Fault Isolation Map, Test Log, Excluded Hypotheses, Narrowed Fault Area	Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions	Causal Loop Diagram, Feedback Notes, Leverage Points
Tagsno overlap	Systems thinkingChangeStrategy	TroubleshootingDiagnosisEngineering	ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks	FeedbackSystems thinkingCausalityDynamics

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