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In chapter 9 of Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change 2^nd ed., Kent Beck writes about the corollary practice of root cause analysis:

“The goal is not just that this one defect won't ever recur, but that the team will never make the same kind of mistake again.”

Ummm, isn’t that what the prescriptive methodologies try to do by adding more process? Let’s not make the same mistake again. :)