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Root Cause — Five Whys

Walk from incident symptom to systemic fix with the five whys.

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Analyze this incident using five whys. Output: 1. Timeline of events 2. Five whys chain from symptom to root cause 3. Contributing factors (not just one root) 4. Corrective actions (immediate vs systemic) 5. What we should monitor to detect recurrence Blameless tone. Focus on process and systems.

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