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The Five Whys method can be harmful to an organization.
Drawn from what John Allspaw said
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- John Allspaw Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering
This post explains my reasoning for discarding it, and how using it has the potential to be harmful, not helpful, to an organization.
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