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How One CTO Uses the Five Whys on Incidents to Find Root Causes
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a practical incident analysis technique: the Five Whys. They look at how one CTO, Sarah Chen at a mid-size fintech company, applies this method not just to technical failures but also to process breakdowns. Lucas breaks down a real example from Sarah's team where a database outage traced back to a missing peer review in a deployment script—revealing that the real root cause was a cultural norm around urgent fixes. Luna challenges whether the Five Whys can oversimplify complex systems, and Lucas shares countermeasures like…
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