# Effective team culture: Five Whys & Stop-the-line

DevFeed: [Effective team culture: Five Whys & Stop-the-line](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/effective-team-culture-five-whys-stop-the-line-28403.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://eaf4.com/five-whys/>)

Author: Edward Faulkner

Published: 2017-08-28T19:29:30Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Edward Faulkner](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/edward-faulkner.md>)

Topics: [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>)

Tags: [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [team](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/team.md>), [team-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/team-culture.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how Five Whys and stop-the-line practices can improve software team psychological safety. It presents mistakes as opportunities to identify deeper process, technology, training, deployment, and credential-management problems rather than as personal failings.

## Source excerpt

When Google set out to measure what makes their best software development teams successful, they found a strong correlation with psychological safety: A shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking... A sense of confidence that the team will not embarrass,