I'm a product manager at a small software company. Since I'm the product manager, I manage the backlog and backlogged issues are assigned to me. However, people also assign a new issues to me (could be a new bug, a user story that's been completed that I need to product owner accept, etc.). When someone assigns a new issue to me, I triage it and either:
- Do something about the issue, fix it, update it and assign it to someone else, etc.
- Close the issue, it's already fixed, doesn't need to be fixed, is not an issue, etc.
- Determine that it's something that we need to do, but are not going to address now, in which case it needs to be put on the backlog and prioritized accordingly.
My question is, how do I easily separate out issues assigned to me because I need to look at them, versus issues that I have looked at and put on the backlog? Since backlog issues are assigned to me as well (IMO correct since I am the product owner, they should be assigned to me, since I'm managing the backlog), I can't easly separate them out.
I've considered:
- Allowing backlogged items to not be assigned to anyone (our current project config does not allow unassigned issues): okay, but I'd rather not enable that config, since I want issues to always have an owner.
- Use a label/tag for items I've backlogged: will work, cumbersome, and doesn't prevent others from putting that tag on an issue before I've reviewed it.
- Create a new "version" for backlogged items: might work, but I don't really want to mess with that
- Create a custom field for backlogged items: again, seems like a hassle.
Are there other ideas? Has anyone else run into this issue? Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks.
