# Bigger questions about the system of focus:
* [ ] How will we know this system is working well? What will be different? - * [ ] What will help this system to work well? What will help this system to flourish? What do we need to get right? - * [ ] What will hinder this system working well? What could get in the way? - * [ ] Who are the stakeholders? What do they want from this system? What does this system need from them to be successful? - * [ ] Now write the story of your system/ business/ venture -
**Questions to extend a CLD:** * [ ] What else affects variable X? What makes it go up? What makes it go down? How? - * [ ] What else does variable Y affect? How? - * [ ] Does an increase in variable X make variable Y go up or down? (If up relationship is "S", if down relationship is "O".) - * [ ] Can we close any loops? ie are there relationships between existing variables that are missing? - * [ ] Can you think of any existing virtuous or vicious cycles in this system? - * [ ] Can you think of any corrective/balancing loops in this system? -
**Questions to verify a CLD:** * [ ] Cul de sacs (Variables affecting nothing else in the diagram): What do they affect (either existing or new variables?) How? - * [ ] Dangles (Variables with nothing affecting them in the diagram) What affects them (either existing or new variables?) How? - * [ ] Disconnected (Variables with no connections to other variables) What do they affect? What affects them? - * [ ] Are the variables capable of variation? Is the wording specific enough? - * [ ] Do the relationships make sense? - * [ ] Does the conversion to english make sense? Can you tell the story of the diagram? -
# Questions to help design an intervention: * [ ] What variables can we influence in this diagram? - * [ ] How can we influence them? - * [ ] What are the true root causes of the issue? What can we do about those? - * [ ] Who needs to be involved in making this happen? - * [ ] What will be the impact (positives and negatives)? - * [ ] Who will be impacted? How? -