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Problem-Solving

A collection of 4 issues

Tying a Bow

Whenever I have to go to a formal event, I always have to look up how to tie a bowtie. Then I have to make several attempts to get it right. Fortunately bowtie diagrams are much less convoluted, and I think of them as a hybridised version of attack/fault

Faulty Attack Trees

There's an argument that fault trees and attack trees are different approaches. I find fault (hah) with that argument. Ultimately, they're the same, just applied slightly differently. Both are a straightforward method to either attempt to predict and prevent an undesirable outcome, or to diagnose one

Why? But why?

Ever wanted to channel your inner toddler? If so, this approach to diagnosing a problem will be a definite favourite. The five whys approach comes out of root cause analysis, and can be applied anywhere you're trying to understand the underlying causes of an issue. Pros Cons Simple

Talk to the Duck

Duck debugging has a long and honourable history, going far back to at least the last century (the first documented mention was in 1999, in Hunt and Thomas' The Practical Programmer). You don't even need a duck - in a pinch you can stick a pair of