If you don’t understand how the system works, your interventions are unlikely to lead to your desired results.
Corollary: If your intervention did not lead to your desired results, you don’t understand how the system works.
@norootcause corollary: if you don't understand the system, you need to observe it. sometimes you need to try interventions and observe the results to understand the system better
@renice Yes! Diagnostic interventions!
@norootcause @renice
Pronunciation rules are so quirky. For example, I usually pronounce "diagnostic intervention" as
ˈtrə-bəl-ˌshüt-iŋ
@DocBohn @renice Things get interesting during an incident, where you need to keep the system healthy (or get the system back to healthy) in addition to understanding what the problem is. So there’s a distinction between “diagnostic intervention” (intervening to understand more) and “therapeutic intervention” (intervening to ‘stabilize the patient’).