Getting your priorities right … P0, P1, P2, …
Since I have started working at Microsoft I have had to absorb and remember a forest of acronyms and when it comes to assigning priorities to work items, issues or bugs, we encounter the P? acronym. Here is a short summary of the priorities we deal with:
P0 | Do not do anything else, this is a blocker. You can think of the Lancaster bomber flying over the English channel with 4 engines on fire … getting the fires out is a P0 priority. |
P1 | Must be fixed. |
P2 | Should be fixed, time and resource permitting. |
P3 | Might get fixed. |
P4 | Noted … this is one step away from the black hole. |
What priorities are you using? I would be interested to see how others are managing their priorities within Team Foundation Server (TFS) and other ALM environments.