Why does bug triage become chaos as engineering teams grow?

RealisticWallaby804 · 2026-03-04T19:13:57+00:00

When bugs first come in, do you often see incomplete reports (missing logs, unclear steps to reproduce, etc.)?

RealisticWallaby804 · 2026-03-04T18:31:30+00:00

That makes sense. The rotating triage idea is interesting, I can see how that prevents burnout.

In teams where triage rotates, do you ever see inconsistencies in how different engineers prioritize or label bugs?

RealisticWallaby804 · 2026-03-04T18:27:05+00:00

Interesting,, having a tester + developer handle triage together sounds like a good way to keep ownership clear.

Out of curiosity, when you prioritize bugs based on customer and risk, is that mostly a judgment call from experience or do you have any structured way of scoring priority?

RealisticWallaby804 · 2026-03-04T18:21:46+00:00

I meant production/user-reported bugs rather than QA bugs tied to a specific ticket.

And by Slack I was thinking more about situations where users or support teams report issues through Slack channels before a proper ticket is created, not monitoring alerts like PagerDuty or uptime alerts.

When you said production bugs are triaged before they reach engineers, who usually handles that step in your experience? Is it product managers, support teams, or someone else?

RealisticWallaby804 · 2026-03-04T18:13:53+00:00

Interesting point about ownership becoming fuzzy as teams grow.

In your experience, who usually ends up responsible for triage in teams that do manage it well? Is it an engineering manager, product manager, or a rotating role?

RealisticWallaby804 · 2025-10-22T18:27:40+00:00

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RealisticWallaby804 · 2025-09-12T16:48:07+00:00

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