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Production Bug Fix Sprint. @bug-fix-sprint
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What you get
the numbers that matter≈ 2 weeks
signed to first PR
96%
engagements renewed
96%
to your stack & domain
Investigate and resolve a bounded batch of reproducible production defects with testing and release support.
How this operator works
every way of working, already decidedOwns the system, not the ticket
Takes end-to-end ownership of a service or surface. Design, delivery, on-call. And is measured on outcomes, not hours.
Embedded, async-first, instrumented
Works inside your repos, your CI and your rituals. Daily written standups, decisions logged. No status-meeting tax.
Runbooks, canaries, reversible deploys
Every change gated and reversible. Incidents get a timeline and a postmortem; nothing ships without a rollback.
Plugged into your Slack & rituals
Joins standups and retros, reports weekly against the goal. You get an operator, not a queue.
Brings a pre-wired stack or adopts yours
Infrastructure and observability as code by default. No bespoke setup tax to absorb.
Scoped, gated, reversible
Week-1 shadow, week-2 ownership, swap on request inside the trial window. No long-tail handover risk.
Overview
Every product carries a list of known production defects that never quite make a sprint: real bugs, reported and reproducible, deprioritized against features until they define the product's reputation. The Production Bug Fix Sprint takes a bounded batch off that list — triaged and agreed up front, investigated to root cause, fixed properly, and released — without pulling your team off the roadmap.
The discipline follows how Scrums.com approaches quality work generally: fixes land with regression tests, so the same defect cannot return silently, and the sprint is defined by the agreed defect list rather than open-ended firefighting. The finish state is that list closed — each item fixed and verified in production, or explicitly returned with findings where investigation changed the picture.
What's included
Defect Triage & Reproduction
The candidate list triaged with you — severity, user impact, reproducibility — and locked as sprint scope, with reproduction cases established before fixing starts.
Root-Cause Fixes
Fixes at the cause rather than the symptom, matching your codebase conventions, with each change reviewed and traceable to its defect.
Regression Test Coverage
An automated test per fix that reproduces the original defect and locks it out — growing your suite where it has demonstrably been thin.
Release & Verification
Fixes released through your pipeline in agreed batches, verified in production, and reported item by item against the sprint list.
How it works
- Scope — Triage the backlog together, fix the sprint's defect list, and agree access, environments, and release rules.
- Build — Reproduce, fix, and test each defect, releasing in batches with your team's review.
- Handover — Final verification report per defect, the new regression tests documented, and patterns worth fixing structurally flagged.
Part of every Delivery Plan
The Production Bug Fix Sprint is a menu item on the Scrums.com delivery catalog, available at every plan tier. Add it to your plan backlog and your delivery team schedules it like any other item — scoped, tracked, and reported through the SEOP. See Delivery Plan Tiers.
FAQs
How many defects fit in a sprint?
Depends entirely on their depth — triage sizes each candidate before the list is locked, so scope is an agreement, not a guess. Bounded scope is what makes the finish state checkable.
What if a bug is deeper than it looked?
Investigation findings are surfaced immediately: the item is either re-scoped by agreement or returned with a documented root cause and recommendation — commonly pointing at the Technical Debt Reduction Sprint when the cause is structural.
What about the bugs that keep coming?
A recurring stream signals a stability problem, not a backlog problem. Ongoing coverage under response SLAs is Platform Maintenance from the menu; a genuinely failing application is the Critical Application Rescue.
What's included
in every engagement · no add-onsTrack record
deployments on real systems · anonymized| Sector | System | Outcome | Span | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fintech | payments-core ledger | 99.97% achieved | 14 mo | ● complete |
| Commerce | checkout platform | −38% incident rate | 9 mo | ● complete |
| Health SaaS | data plane | 0 SEV1 in 6 mo | 11 mo | ● active |
| Logistics | routing engine | zero-downtime cutover | 7 mo | ● complete |
| AI infra | inference cluster | p99 −120 ms | 5 mo | ● active |
Works inside your stack
surfaces this operator binds to| Surface | Binding | Direction | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source control | github.com/<org> | reviews + writes | OIDC |
| CI / CD | scm-flow · deploy-service | gates deploys | OIDC |
| Observability | otlp://collector:4317 | metrics + alerts | mTLS |
| Comms | slack://<workspace> | standups, incidents | SSO |
| Secrets | vault://scrums/op/<id> | short-lived creds | SPIFFE |
| On-call | pagerduty://<org> | primary / secondary | API token |
Boundaries
what to deploy insteadScoped to this discipline. For an adjacent capability, compose a second operator into the squad. compose →
Not a fractional advisory engagement. For advisory-only, contact platform@scrums.com.
Deployments
the only social proof we publish402deploys
across 38 organizations
+24 last 30 days · median age 11.4 mo · retention 96%
Pricing
one number · one footnoteAvailable at all Delivery Plan Tiers →
All-in: the operator, delivery manager and replacement guarantee. No recruiter fee, no markup surprises.
Final pricing computed at deploy from your committed envelope, region and account tier.
FAQ
common questionsHow is Production Bug Fix Sprint priced?
Pricing is shown to signed-in accounts. Sign in to view the rate; pricing is computed from your engagement scope, region and account tier.
Is Production Bug Fix Sprint available now?
Yes. It is published and deployable directly from the Scrums.com catalog.
Can a Production Bug Fix Sprint deployment be reversed?
Yes. Deployments are reversible with a one-click swap inside the trial window.
Who provides Production Bug Fix Sprint?
Scrums.com, vetted by the Scrums.com platform.
How it compares
vs other delivery| Option | From | Stack | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Production Bug Fix Sprint · this one | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · outcome-driven-sprints · bug-fixing | ● available |
| Codebase Quality Audit | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · code-audit · maintenance | ● available |
| Product Discovery Sprint | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · discovery · workshop | ● available |
| Clickable Product Prototype | 🔒 Sign in for pricing | delivery · prototyping · design | ● available |
Commonly deployed with
more deliveryRun this scope on your Delivery Plan
Core costs Was $8,000£6,700R140,000 now $4,500£3,750R79,000/month for one active workstream. Your scope sets the delivery schedule and the total cost. You can use the same plan for your other development work.
Add this scope to your backlog. Your delivery owner confirms the scope with you, and the team delivers it.
One plan for your software backlog.
Work is scoped and delivered within your plan’s capacity. Priorities can change; additional parallel workstreams require more capacity.