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Habits and Communication
Make Triage a Habit on Your Team
7 min
Make triage a habit
Team operating model (lightweight)
- Intake: every new Sev ticket gets blast-radius fields (even partial)
- Daily 10-minute triage on release weeks
- Named containment owner when P0/P1
- Write the one-line defense in the ticket
Template fields to add in Jira/Linear
- Users affected / %
- Workaround (none/partial/full)
- Money/data/safety/legal? (Y/N + note)
- Proposed severity
- Proposed priority
- Containment idea
Interview signal
Hiring managers listen for triage language: constraints, blast radius, containment, and stakeholder clarity — not only “I found bugs.”
Your task this week
Take five real or sample bugs. Fill the template. Compare with a teammate. Note where you disagreed — that disagreement is the skill edge.