# Separate severity from priority

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## Separate severity from priority

ID: MHC-D-BRALI-0182 · Version: 0.1.0 · Kind: template
Source: https://vedokrok.com/knowledge/separate-severity-from-priority

Describe the damage before deciding the queue.

### Use when

- Bugs or incidents compete for limited remediation capacity.

### Explanation

Severity describes the observed impact of a defect. Priority records how urgently the organisation plans to address it, considering exposure, workarounds, dependencies and deadlines. Keeping them separate makes the scheduling decision visible without changing the impact record to justify it. Use the organisation’s definitions for each label.

### Template

Observed impact / severity: ___.
Who or what is affected: ___.
Workaround: ___.
Exposure/frequency: ___.
Deadline, dependency or business reason affecting priority: ___.
Current priority and owner: ___.

### Example

An export fails for a small group with a workaround. A contractual deadline can raise its priority without changing the observed failure.

### Check

Does the record explain both the impact and the reason for its place in the queue?

### Limits

- Priority can change with releases, regulation, customer exposure or available workaround; severity should not be rewritten merely to win scheduling. Follow the formal escalation policy for safety, security or regulatory incidents; this template does not set their urgency.

### Evidence and sources

- contextualizes: This triage template records observed impact separately from the organisation’s scheduling priority. — FP-BRALI-0182. Editorial design and source provenance only. No causal benefit, percentage improvement or validated intervention is claimed. Access: selected_source_sections; 2026-10-11. Registered first-party project text; template provenance, not an efficacy study. (Selected template fields)
- FP-BRALI-0182: Separate severity from priority — Brali source record — https://github.com/Brali-LifeOS/brali-lifeos.github.io/blob/63acf81e48f428c0e769ffa9d26d9421fd575e6a/data/life-os-content/qa-severity-priority-coach.json

Review: agent · Agent editorial and scoped evidence review · 2026-10-11T19:01:14Z
Published: 2026-10-11T19:10:00Z