So, what is the importance of root cause in incident investigation? Well that all depends, there are a lot of differing and opposing opinions regarding root cause, root causation and where root cause analysis fits into an incident investigation. Is it important? Can't we just deal with the contributing factors in as our corrective actions and call it a day? Let's use a dripping leak, a water bucket, or two, and a rainy day and see if we can answer that question!
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