Use Five Whys on a Flaky Build
Use Five Whys to identify a process-level countermeasure for recurring build failures.
The nightly build repeatedly fails because designer-authored data references missing enemy archetypes. Five Whys traces symptom -> cause chain -> process countermeasure. The common trap is stopping at the person who touched the row instead of the system that allowed invalid data to merge. Why 1 Why did the build fail? A data table referenced an enemy archetype that did not exist in main. Start with the observed failure, not blame. Why 2 Why did the table reference it? The designer copied a name from a feature branch that had not merged. The first answer explains the symptom, not yet…
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