09/29/2026
Root cause analysis, in plain terms.
A user cannot log in. The quick fix is to reset the session and move on. Ticket closed, everyone is happy until Thursday.
Root cause analysis asks the next question. Why did the session break? A sync job had been failing quietly for three weeks. Why was it failing? A credential expired and nothing was watching it. Why was nothing watching it? It never got added to monitoring when the system went in.
Now there is something real to fix, and fixing it removes a whole class of future tickets.
That takes longer on the day. It is the reason our clients call us less in year two than in year one.