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The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention
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The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention

by Marc McDonald, Robert Musson, Ross Smith
October 2007
Beginner to intermediate
480 pages
14h 16m
English
Microsoft Press
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Phases of an RCA Study

An RCA study is an effort to find preventive techniques to eradicate a single defect or an entire class of defects. A root cause analysis can be performed in a number of different ways, but RCA studies typically map to six distinct steps or phases (see Figure 11-1):

1.
Event identification
2.
Data collection
3.
Data analysis and assessment
4.
Corrective actions
5.
Inform and apply
6.
Follow-up, measurement, and reporting
Figure 11-1. Phases of a root cause analysis study

A formal root cause study includes the six distinct phases; however, less-formal studies are still effective and may contain ...

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