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Instead of root cause analysis as blame laying, look at this as more of an identification of diagnostically important reasons. The above example doesn't help anyone. If code was late, would you accept "our developer is incompetent" as a root cause? Of course not. It's possible that they are, but it's also possible that requirements were not clear or that they took toe long to clarify, which led to a reduced amount of time to do actual development.

In a bigger sense though, the exercise is to force you to take a moment to look beyond band-aid solution, not as an exercise to critique capitalism.