3. $H!T HAPPENS
• Soluto 62 hours outage
http://blog.soluto.com/2013/01/an-apology-from-thesoluto-team
• Adobe accounts hacked data exposed for 3M customers
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/3/4800042/adobe-suffers-cyber-attackmillions-of-customers-affected
• Knight 450M$ loss because of a bad rollout
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/trying-to-be-nimble-knightcapital-stumbles
• Plenty of more …
4. REACTION #1
THROW IT ON SOMEONE ELSE
Sentences
• “This is your fault”
• “You shouldn’t have done this”
Feelings
• Anger
• Shame
• Ego
5. REACTION #2
TAKE THE BLAME
Sentences
• “This is totally my fault”
• “I take full responsibility”
• “I promise it won’t happen again”
Feelings
• Shame
• Remorse
• Humiliation
7. SO WHAT’S 5 WHYS ANYWAY?
When a problem occurs ask 5 times why?
Simple as that.
8. EXAMPLE
• A business partner is unhappy.
• Why?
Because we didn't deliver on time
• Why?
The job took much longer than we thought
• Why?
We underestimated the complexity
• Why?
We didn't list the individual stages needed
• Why?
Because we were running behind on other stuff and did not give
enough attention to time estimates
15. SINGULAR
A single root cause where several root causes hide
Don’t care about root causes
Which improvement will eliminate broadest class of
problems?
21. FLOW
1. Neutralizing statement
2. Describe what happened
3. 5Ys
4. Action items
5. Document the resolutions
6. Publish resolution to all relevant people
25. REFERENCES
The Toyota Way 2001
http://www.slideshare.net/danmil30/how-to-run-a-5-whyswith-humans-not-robots
http://www.reversim.com/2011/10/109-final-class-10.html