The Art of Agile Development: No Bugs

Daniel Dominguez

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Rather than fixing bugs, agile methods strive to prevent

them.

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Methods for triaging bugs

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1. In the Product Backlog

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2. In a Hardending Sprint

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3. Bug Court

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4. Dedicated Sprints

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How are we?

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Our Bug Metrics May 2016

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May 2016 (18 Bugs Open)

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May 2016 (18 Bugs Open)

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zero bug policyWhat if?

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How does zero bug policy works?

Bugs can be generalized into 2 categories:

1. Bugs that were opened during the sprint for user stories (features you are now implementing)

- Fix them right away, otherwise the story/feature is not really DONE.

2. All the other bugs (regression, customer bugs, etc.). Non-sprint bugs.

- Either fix them right away (or in the next sprint). Or close them as "won't fix".

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Conclusions

- Bug fixing should be part of our “Engineering Culture”.

- Solving Bugs shouldn’t be considered a “Punishment”.

- The team should have a balance between bug fixing and sprint development.

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