Comment by anon48293 4 days ago Doesn’t eliminating RCA case by case also lead to fewer CFA thereby eliminating them as well? 3 comments anon48293 Reply juancn 4 days ago It's rarely a single cause, there's no root, it's a forest.It's usually a combination of things that are not quite right, specially in mature orgs where all the simple fixes have already been applied.It's semantic, if you do RCA right you don't stop at a single cause, but that's what usually ends up happening. mablopoule 3 days ago About that, I'm still a fan of the classic "How Complex Systems fails"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32895812 anon48293 2 days ago I get that. But it might not be feasible to immediately maintain an entire forest.Whereas it’s usually easy to point at a specific tree and say “that one has got to go”.Keep doing this and you maintain the forest without ever getting overwhelmed.
juancn 4 days ago It's rarely a single cause, there's no root, it's a forest.It's usually a combination of things that are not quite right, specially in mature orgs where all the simple fixes have already been applied.It's semantic, if you do RCA right you don't stop at a single cause, but that's what usually ends up happening. mablopoule 3 days ago About that, I'm still a fan of the classic "How Complex Systems fails"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32895812 anon48293 2 days ago I get that. But it might not be feasible to immediately maintain an entire forest.Whereas it’s usually easy to point at a specific tree and say “that one has got to go”.Keep doing this and you maintain the forest without ever getting overwhelmed.
mablopoule 3 days ago About that, I'm still a fan of the classic "How Complex Systems fails"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32895812
anon48293 2 days ago I get that. But it might not be feasible to immediately maintain an entire forest.Whereas it’s usually easy to point at a specific tree and say “that one has got to go”.Keep doing this and you maintain the forest without ever getting overwhelmed.
It's rarely a single cause, there's no root, it's a forest.
It's usually a combination of things that are not quite right, specially in mature orgs where all the simple fixes have already been applied.
It's semantic, if you do RCA right you don't stop at a single cause, but that's what usually ends up happening.
About that, I'm still a fan of the classic "How Complex Systems fails"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32895812
I get that. But it might not be feasible to immediately maintain an entire forest.
Whereas it’s usually easy to point at a specific tree and say “that one has got to go”.
Keep doing this and you maintain the forest without ever getting overwhelmed.