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How to distribute development and bug fixes tasks
Your question sounds a bit like your "team" consists of this sole engineer? If yes, the main question is why they didn't run away yet. Such a situation isn't sustainable.
Apart from the &...
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First of all I agree with Hans-Martin Mosner's answer.
However, in your current situation there also might be an issue with the bug fixing process. Either all bugs are emergencies that directly affect ...
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How to distribute development and bug fixes tasks
It sounds like you are trapped in a loop of rushing the dev work, which then has bugs, which then causes you to rush the dev work.
Break the cycle by doing fewer, but better tested releases. Stop ...
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You have apparently not considered option D: stop doing Scrum.
It sounds like your work is much more suited to something like Kanban rather than Scrum, so you should do that.
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One step is to set up everyone’s development environment so that bug fixes can be made without disturbing ongoing development. For example, I always have three folders that are checked out from git. ...
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Lately the developer is complaining that they are constantly interrupted to do bug fixing and that their role is of a support engineer and not a developer anymore because often they have to work all ...
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