Disproportionately impacts people who experience disruption of their meta-cognitive processes, due to for example ADD, ADHD, anxiety, and depression, among other conditions

Disproportionately impacts people who speak one language compared to the impact on people who speak another language

Disproportionately impacts people who have difficulty seeing, due to for example blindness, low vision, or color blindness

Concerns the process for building, packaging, and distribution

Concerns standalone documentation, training materials, context-sensitive help, or other communication with users, developers, and system administrators

Concerns a physical object, for example a development board, water pump, or chair

Concerns a server, virtual machine, service, tools, utility, or other support facility

Concerns computer-executed or interpreted code

Concerns a test of the system, or the testing activity, for example, a unit test, or a continuous integration pipeline

This activity involves multiple, interrelated activities that will take longer than 2 weeks.

It might be work, but it's also fun.

Existing functionality is malfunctioning

An existing feature could be incrementally improved

New functionality, smaller or lower-level than a user story, could be added

Changes are needed to reduce technical debt or preserve current functionality as the surrounding environment changes. For example, refactoring, upgrading dependencies, or complying with new minor versions of standards.

A user wants to accomplish something new, or accomplish something in a new way

Deeply desired. Of high importance, but lower urgency.

Low urgency, low importance. This (or its absence) is causing some minor trouble. It would be good to deal with it eventually.

Low urgency, moderate importance; or high urgency, low importance. This is causing some trouble it is getting harder to ignore, but it can hold until the normal course of duty reaches it. | Default

High urgency, high importance, consequences of large magnitude. If only one thing can be done, this is the one to do.