Re:Root cause of failure, root cause of success
by mappu on Saturday August 14, 2021 @11:18PM
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
C functions have one return code for success, and a thousand for the different ways something can go wrong.
You can very clearly root cause a failure. In the reverse case you can identify aspects of the success whose absence would have caused a greater chance of failure, but there are still many more ways for a project to go wrong than there are for it to go right.
C functions have one return code for success, and a thousand for the different ways something can go wrong.
You can very clearly root cause a failure. In the reverse case you can identify aspects of the success whose absence would have caused a greater chance of failure, but there are still many more ways for a project to go wrong than there are for it to go right.