My team is just getting started integrating agile practices (we've chosen kanban) into our dev, test and design teams, but we have a lot of bug cases and feature cases not written in user stories left over from the old system and we're trying to find a good way to take care of the bugs but still keep the devs that need to stay heads down focused. for now we have a newer dev assigned to bug fixes so the rest can work on new features but we are looking for the right way to structure the team. We have 7 devs, 2 testers and 2 designers.Thanks in advance for the help :)
balancing old cases with agile practices
agile;kanban
Place the bug items on your Kanban board like everything else (in prioritized order of course) and then let the team decide who should implement the next item in the queue. I believe the team knows best how to handle this, rather than having someone else distribute the items among specific team members. At least that will give them an opportunity to self-organize. This being agile and all.