If talking literal fires, two, both cooking-related, frustratingly. :) Tech fires can happen as often as 8-10 times a month in our work environment, which is c

If talking literal fires, two, both cooking-related, frustratingly. :) Tech fires can happen as often as 8-10 times a month in our work environment, which is consulting simultaneously for several clients. It usually happens a few weeks or months after information was not successfully passed into a larger organization and completely routed to the right people. The second most common cause is misconfiguration. We do cause analysis and often find that the person who misconfigured was very surprised at what they’d overlooked. Even the best-intentioned people cannot trust themselves if they’re busy. We find we have fewer issues when engineers are in the habit of including screenshots when they report having done something. The screenshots occasionally prompt a review from a colleague, but more often, the act of taking the screenshot or the glimpse of the screenshot when attaching it helps the engineer catch an issue.