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Finding root-causes with Ishikawa – MES014

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Ishikawa diagram

In the first session about root-cause analysis we have introduced the 5-Whys technique. It has its benefits, but also some severe disadvantages. As one of the most obvious ones the limitation on one root-cause can be highlighted.

In this episode the Ishikawa technique will be introduced. The Ishikawa-diagram could be assumed as the big brother of the small 5-Whys. The Ishikawa covers all the limitations of the 5-Whys and provides a great way to also handle multiple root-causes and more complicated effects. But it also has its disadvantages and pitfalls.

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Engineers’ talk: Tools and Building with Robert Schiele – MES013

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Tools and building in large scale projects

Tools and Building

This episode is about building, maintaining and distributing tools and operating system in large scale projects. With Robert Schiele an expert on all this kind of topics stays with me. He is senior specialist for developing OS-tools, providing toolchains and building operating systems.

Robert provides dedicated and verbose insights into the Linux Kernel and the Linux Operating System in particular. He’s one of the guys I know who is eagerly engaged into the OpenSource-community.

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6 ways to struggle with your explanations – MES011

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How to struggle with your explanations?

All the day you might run into the situation to explain problems, defects, situations or environment. Very often your listener or the audience is not aware of the underlying technical details. Or they do not have the knowledge to understand the details at all.

This episode tells you 6 ways to struggle for sure with all of your explanations. But it also shows you an approved ways to convert even very complicated nerd details into an understandable manner.

Be sure that you struggle

If you want to ensure your failure follow these six behaviors:

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How this podcast is produced – MES010

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This is the vacation episode. Recorded on my way to the beach of Moliets-et-Maa.

Moliets-et-Maa is a small village in south-west of France. It’s situated close to the Atlantic sea. Roundabout 120 km south of Bordeaux and 50 kilometres north of Biarritz. It’s a surfer’s spot and offers a 9- and 18-hole golf course. We love it due to the great sea view, the wide beach and the lovely weather conditions.

It’s also my 10th episode and therefore time for a short celebration. Hoorray. Okay, that’s enough.

 

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Finding root causes with 5-Whys – MES009

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Root cause? What’s that?

Remember your last sickness. Caught a cold or a flew? Weren’t you only curing the symptoms? Usually nobody cares for the real reasons when getting ill with these small diseases. But there are lots of persons who are able to somehow avoid any disease. What’s the difference? Why were you felt sick?

It’s like weeding your garden. Very often only the symptoms are cured, but no real solution can be achieved. The weed gets back soon. Removing the root would do the job,
but that costs additional effort, back-pain and time.

Within the business context regularly the management requests an immediate, complete, fast and reliable solution of problems. But is that possible without finding the real cause of a problem? Without fixing the real cause of a problem it might pop the same way again as the weed does.

That’s the ideas of root cause analysis. Dive deeper into a problem to find the real underlying cause of the problem. The diving should be that deep to find not only a cause, but the process which is failing or is insufficient

This episode is about the first and basic technique of finding the real root cause of a problem: the 5-Whys technique

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