6.7Triage Meetings

Bug triage is the regular meeting where the team reviews new bugs and assigns priority. Effective triage:

1. QA presents the bug with severity assessment
2. Product owner assesses business impact and sets priority
3. Engineering estimates effort to fix
4. Team decides: fix now, schedule for this sprint, or add to backlog

Triage Questions

• Who is affected? (All users, subset, internal only?)
• Is there a workaround? (If yes, priority may decrease)
• What is the blast radius? (One feature, multiple features, entire app?)
• Is this a regression? (Regressions often get higher priority because they broke something that was working)
• Is there a compliance or security implication? (Automatic priority escalation)