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Selected:Leverage PointsRisk StormingForce Field AnalysisARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
| Criterion |  Systems Thinking Leverage Points |  Architecture Risk Storming |  Decision Making Force Field Analysis |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog. | In change initiatives, supporting and restraining forces sit at the table at the same time. Force Field Analysis makes these tensions explicit and shows where change can be pushed forward by strengthening or relieving. | 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 | High | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Half day | 60-90 min | 45-90 min | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-12 | 3-12 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Leverage Map, Action Strategy | Annotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action Backlog | Force Field Map, Change Levers, Risk Notes | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions |
Tagsno overlap | Systems thinkingChangeStrategy | RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation | ChangeDecisionStrategy | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks |