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How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, a site outage may seem like it was caused by a bad piece of code, but: why was that code written? Five Whys is designed to avoid these nebulous arguments. By the time a tops-down company-wide review figured out the main problems, they’d have shifted to another location.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Insist on high levels of usability, UI design, and polish. Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Stealth is a customer-free zone. Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. Fail faster.