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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 policy
What 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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