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Causal Analysis based on System Theory (CAST)

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Thanks for the article and shoutout - CAST is great and I use it extensively with tech teams. Causal Analysis based on Systems Theory - my notes - https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/causal-analysis-based... The full handbook by Nancy…
comment by jph · 2025-10-13 · in Root cause analysis? You're doing it wrong
The article describes Causal Analysis based on Systems Theory (CAST) which is akin to many-factor root cause analysis. I am a big fan of CAST for software teams, and of MIT Prof. Nancy Leveson who leads CAST. My CAST summary notes for tech…
comment by jph · 2025-01-03 · in The Evolution of SRE at Google