what is walk back the cat?

[nishat Parveen]

It is a metaphor used for troubleshooting the problem.when something goes wrong the situation is analysed in chronological order to find out when the problem happened and why, and correct mistakes so that they dont happen again,

Eg, like when a cat unravels a ball of string and you have to rewind the twisted yarn to find the flaw.

[Pradeepa]

To reexamine a case to diagnose errors. It simply means undo or repair thus mangles a compelling metaphor and misses the point, since the occurrence of the event is itself an important data point in such an investigation.

Eg: To solve the management problem, organisation analyse in chronological order to find better solution which is called as walk back the cat.

[Nivedha Kannan]

It is the process of reexamining the issue to resolve the errors..

[boutha priya]

Intelligence analysts have a technique to reveal a foreign government’s internal dissension called ”walking back the cat.”

[jeevithakomu]

Walk back the cat is spy slang for retracing the train of evidence & assumption until the double agent , the false source or the analytic error is identified.

[Author]

Posts