Nexus Eclipse

Glossary

Severity vs priority

Severity is how bad the defect is for a user or the system. Priority is the order you fix it.

A misspelled label on the homepage can be high priority and low severity. A data-loss bug in a rare admin path can be the reverse. Mixing the words is how standups argue.

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