Incident Management Priority Matrix

 

Impact

  • Extensive – A core business functionality is unavailable; the application is unable to function.

  • Significant – A business functionality is unavailable or degraded, impacting a large group of users. No workaround is available, or a workaround is possible and may be a significant amount of work for the clients.

  • Moderate – An incident impacting a small group of users. A workaround is available and manageable for the clients.

  • Minor – A single user incident.

 

Urgency

  • Critical 

    • A core business functionality is unavailable and must be restored immediately to minimize business downtime.

    • IT Security has discovered a vulnerability that must be resolved immediately.

  • High – A business functionality unavailable or degraded, impacting a large group of users, and must be restored as soon as possible to minimize direct or security impact on the business.

  • Medium – An incident impacting a small group of users.

  • Low – A single user incident.

 

Other Sources we can look into:

Bug Severity - Seafarer Services - Marine - Confluence (atlassian.net)

Defect Severity - SOFTWARE TESTING Fundamentals

Defect Priority - SOFTWARE TESTING Fundamentals