How does setting a higher severity for one bug over the other help devs?

ska · on Feb 26, 2020

How would you signal the difference between:

1. We have the wrong .png asset in the database

2. Our entire rendering infrastructure is suspect

daveFNbuck · on Feb 27, 2020

That would be extremely obvious from the bug title and description, which are presumably being read by the person who sets priority.

ska · on Feb 27, 2020

So instead of a severity rating, you are saying severity is encoded in the language of the description? Using descriptors a potentially non-technical PM can understand unambiguously?

I'm not saying this is the wrong approach by the way, it's just interesting how people approach this differently.

daveFNbuck · on Feb 28, 2020

If the PM doesn't have enough expertise to understand how severe a bug is, how are they supposed to accurately assess the business impact?