Fiona's Bug Priority Formula (patent pending, trademark applied for, all rights reserved)

[semperfiona]

A data problem at a member site	25 pts
Which is going to cause their billing to fail	25 pts
Which is to be run within an hour	25pts
Which requires research to determine how to fix	-10 pts
And I'm already connected to the site	50 pts
Is for a "problem child" member	15 pts
An interesting programming problem	10 pts
Which involves digging into the guts of our "framework" code	10 pts
Which involves digging into the internals of Java Swing	-15 pts
Which involves the order in which events are processed	-5pts
Impossible to reproduce consistently	-100 pts
Only reproducible through a convoluted or nonsensical series of steps	-13 pts
Pressure from the requestor	1 pt per phone call, 2 pts per cubicle visit
With whom I have a friendly relationship	Pressure pts * 2
With whom I have a particularly prickly relationship	Pressure pts * -1.5
Who is my direct superior	10 pts per increasing mgmt level
Who is Dan W	5 pts
Current time is within an hour of leaving for the day	-3 pts
And it's Friday or the day before a day off	-7 pts
And I estimate that I can finish it in the remaining time	Remaining time - estimated time left over when finished
A Bad Idea	Badness Quotient (always a negative number) times 2
A Good Idea	Goodness Quotient or Importance (always a positive number) times 3
Involves database schema changes	-25 pts
CR is marked "Critical" by the requestor	10 pts
For the currently impending release	20 - days remaining until release
Will simplify my life later	8 pts
By preventing data problems I've had to fix	Number of data fixes performed * number of members at which fixes were performed
Found in the course of solving something else	Original fix's priority rating, times 2

Comments

[red-frog.livejournal.com]

Very nice.

Comment from coworker

[semperfiona]

Only reproducible through a convoluted or nonsensical series of steps

This is only worth -15? It should be -150! Call it the Lori test.

[jilly-bear.livejournal.com]

You have way to much energy! But it was funny all the same. :p

Well, I decided to get one of these funny accounts - gives me something to do at work when all WO's (and CR's) are done. So I added you to my friends list. Mwahahahahahahaha!!!!!!