Quality Shepherd towards better software…

With apologies to Ian Betteridge for the hyperbolic headline, I wanted to share this 6 minute lightning talk in which Jon Tørresdal argues for “The simplest solution to bug tracking: don’t!”.

To paraphrase Jon’s list of 5 “crazy ideas”:

1. Don’t track bugs; just fix them
2. Delete all bugs in your backlog that you can’t fix immediately
3. All newly reported bugs are either rejected or fixed immediately
4. Automated tests are created for each new bug
5. Set WIP limit for bugs (eg. 20 total)

Ten years ago I would have scoffed at the idea of not tracking bugs and deleting the bug backlog, but today, I can see this as a realistic possibility. In fact, this isn’t far from how my current team operates today. So what’s stopping me from going all in? Guts?

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