Weekly Recipe: Prioritize defects when everything Is critical
🎁 Defect Prioritization Triage Guide. From defect intake to deciding when to act.
Welcome to this week’s Sunday Recipe!
On Thursday, we discussed the pitfalls of the “everything is critical” backlog and why misunderstanding Severity and Priority can destroy a team’s ability to deliver.
We talked about the "Homeland Security" trap of defect management, where every defect is labelled 'Critical' or 'P1'. When everything is on fire, your backlog becomes a busy suggestion box, and your team loses the ability to actually prioritize.
If you missed it, here’s the link.
Knowing the theory, however, is only half the battle. The actual challenge is walking into that triage meeting on Monday morning, facing new defects, and actually changing how your team and stakeholders operate.
That’s exactly what today’s recipe is for.
Below, you’ll find the exact templates, facilitation steps, and metrics you need to implement this two-knob system, plus a few hard lessons on what didn’t work when I first rolled this out in the trenches.
Let’s dive in.
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