Practitioner Guides
How to run a great Root Cause Analysis — frameworks, templates, and worked examples.
Scaffold example. This intro exists to exercise the topic-intro slot in the v1 blog scaffolding. CEO will replace it with the locked Practitioner Guides intro from RCA-494.
The Practitioner Guides series is for engineers who run incident reviews and want to get more out of them — clearer chains of cause, fewer "human error" dead-ends, and action items that actually change how the system behaves.
- 7 min read
How to run a 5-Whys session that doesn't derail
A founder-led, opinionated guide to running blameless 5-Whys sessions that produce real corrective actions instead of polite consensus.
- 7 min read
AI-Powered Root Cause Analysis: The Next Evolution in Problem Solving
What AI actually does well in RCA — pattern detection, prior-case recall, branch suggestion — and where it still has to defer to human judgment.
- 6 min read
What is Root Cause Analysis?
Root Cause Analysis finds the policy or system choice that made a failure inevitable — not the person who happened to be in the room. A practitioner's intro.