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Software

Diagnostic

1 week

A support queue that stopped growing on Mondays

One week of listening to tickets showed three root causes behind two thirds of the backlog.

Client

Marrow Analytics

Sector

Software

Duration

1 week

Result

11 fixes ranked by effort

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The situation

Marrow's support queue doubled every weekend and drained slowly during the week. The team assumed they needed more people. They had a hiring plan, but also a hunch it would not help.

What we did

  • Read and tagged 300 tickets over two days.

  • Interviewed four support agents and two engineers.

  • Ranked every fix by the hours it would save and the effort it would take.

The numbers

Three root causes explained 64 percent of the tickets: an unclear password reset email, a billing page that hid the invoice download, and a status page nobody updated. The ranked list had eleven fixes. The first four took one engineer nine days.

What happened next

They paused the hiring plan for a quarter. By the end of it the Monday spike had flattened.

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