Root Cause

Apply 5 Whys + Fishbone (Ishikawa) + Pareto when something already broke and you need to find the root cause, not the symptom. Use whenever 用户 says "为什么会这样" / "找根因" / "这个 bug 怎么发生的" / "用户为什么流失" / "数据为什么跌" / "上次也踩过这个坑" / "incident postmortem" / "事故复盘". Forces 5-level "why" probing past the first surface answer, distinguishes proximate cause from root cause, uses Fishbone's 6M categories (man/machine/method/material/measurement/environment) for systemic issues, applies Pareto 80/20 to prioritize fixes. Stops "fix the symptom" pattern. Self-contained methodology — no external docs required.

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