Re: On Topic Friday: Badges of Villainy

William December Starr <wdstarr@xxxxxxxxx>:
That depends on your available resources. If you have the resources
-- particularly, more people than are needed to be spending all
their efforts dealing with the problem -- then it's a *good* thing
to put some of them to work figuring out what and who caused the
mess, so that the incompetent/guilty can be (at the very least)
dejobbed as quickly as possible, before they cause even more trouble.

Sure, but that is part of another process; "why did it happen, and how do
we avoid it in the furture". All too often questions are asked in the
order
1. Who is to blame?
2. What went wrong?
3. How do we avoid it in the future?

"This isn't the time to be pointing fingers and assigning blame" is,
after all, most often the cant of those who know damn well that
_they're_ the blameworthy ones.

That depends. If the only thing you want to do is assign blame you are
wasting time. If you are instead asking "WHO did WHAT wrong, and HOW do
we PREVENT it from HAPPENING AGAIN?" and the answer truly is "keep X out
of key positions" then that is fine. All too often we get the logic of
"Abel did something wrong, let us all take turns and kick Abel in the
face and then chuck him out the door. Problem solved.".

/Par

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he was cured...
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