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Good RCA: Produce some useful documentation to prevent issue from recurring.

Fantastic RCA: Remove requirement that caused the action that resulted in the problem occurring.

Bad RCA: Lets get 12 non technical people on a call to ask the on call engineer who is tired from 6 hours managing the fault, a bunch of technical questions they don't understand the answers to anyway.

(Worst possible fault practice is to bring in a bunch of stakeholders and force the engineer to be on a call with them while they try and investigate the fault)

Worst RCA: A half paragraph describing the problem in the most general terms to meet a contractual RCA requirement.



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