Manuals / Bug Reporting & Advocacy / Ch 4

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4. Severity vs priority

Bug Reporting & Advocacy · 36 pages source format

Severity = impact on users/system. Priority = order of work. You recommend; product/eng own priority.

What you'll learn

  • Scales
  • User impact stories
  • Avoiding P0 spam

Impact narrative

Who is hurt, how often, workarounds, blast radius.

  • Sev-1 — blocker / data loss / security / no workaround
  • Sev-2 — major feature broken, limited workaround
  • Sev-3 — partial / annoying / edge
  • Sev-4 — cosmetic / polish

Do this now

Write severity rationale for 3 bugs in two sentences each.

Clear?

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