Jason Little's Agile Blog

A while ago I posted about why I feel you shouldn’t estimate bugs.  In a nutshell, if you estimate bugs you’ve essentially ‘double-dipped’ the feature.  There’s the estimate for the feature and the estimate(s) for the bug(s) introduced while the feature was being built.  If you’re using Scrum defects go to the top, they don’t [...]

Is it a bug or is it an improvement?  Well, that debate will happen during any project but the purpose of this post is to iterate why bugs (legit bugs) should not be estimated in Scrum.
First of all, if you’re using Agile development techniques, you shouldn’t have any bugs to begin with but in the [...]