{"id":27513,"date":"2022-01-18T11:20:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T10:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/glossar\/cause-effect-diagram\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:03:00","slug":"cause-effect-diagram","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/glossar\/cause-effect-diagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause-effect diagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav aria-label=\"breadcrumbs\" class=\"rank-math-breadcrumb\"><p><span class=\"last\">Startseite<\/span><\/p><\/nav>\n<h1><strong>What is a cause-and-effect diagram?<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"39189\">The <strong>cause-and-effect diagram<\/strong> is also known as a fishbone diagram or Ishikawa diagram. It visually represents a problem-solving process in which the primary causes of a problem are sought. The resulting diagram is one of the so-called &#8220;seven quality tools&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"39469\">All causes of the problem should be identified and their dependencies shown. A tree structure (Fault Tree Analysis) or table structure ( <em data-renderer-mark=\"true\">Cause and Effect Matrix) <\/em>is often used as a presentation method. <\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"39469\">\n<p><strong>More useful information<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"w2vlNyq1ds\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/q7-the-7-elementary-quality-tools\/\">Q7 &#8211; die 7 elementaren Qualit\u00e4tswerkzeuge.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Q7 &#8211; die 7 elementaren Qualit\u00e4tswerkzeuge.&#8221; &#8212; Testify\" src=\"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/q7-the-7-elementary-quality-tools\/embed\/#?secret=G3xIPeq3XB#?secret=w2vlNyq1ds\" data-secret=\"w2vlNyq1ds\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p data-renderer-start-pos=\"39469\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"5Z7Gf7bP7C\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/solutions\/defect-documentation\/\">Mangeldokumentation<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cMangeldokumentation\u201d \u2014 Testify\" src=\"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/solutions\/defect-documentation\/embed\/#?secret=ouK9wfifzs#?secret=5Z7Gf7bP7C\" data-secret=\"5Z7Gf7bP7C\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a cause-and-effect diagram? The cause-and-effect diagram is also known as a fishbone diagram or Ishikawa diagram. It visually represents a problem-solving process in which the primary causes of a problem are sought. The resulting diagram is one of the so-called &#8220;seven quality tools&#8221;. All causes of the problem should be identified and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-27513","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/27513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testify.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}