Problem solving tips for helpdesk personnel
| Home | 1. Symptoms | 2. Examine the evidence | 3. Confirm everything | 4. Research | 5. Postulate |
| 6. Identify the problem | 7. Provide a solution | 8. Confirm the solution | 9. Communicate & record | Useful links | |
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Confirm everything
Quite often you have to tease the information out of a user over several question and answer situations. Once you feel that you understand the problem, make sure you confirm it with the user :
"So, as I understand it, if you clck the Update button while creating a new record, the screen crashes with an error "Record must be unique". This was working fine on Friday, no-one else has this problem, and you haven't made any changes to your machine over the weekend. Is that correct?"
If they don't confirm then you must repeat step 1 until you are both happy that you are talking about the same problem.