Five Whys pattern illustration

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Five Whys

Asking 'Why?' five times to get to root cause of a problem

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Sakichi Toyoda; Toyota Production System
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Asking 'Why?' five times to get to root cause of a problem

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  • why_it_works
  • signals
  • antipattern
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