Assign a Feature to multiple people
There are times where we have multiple people working on a story, either due to investigating a spike or pair-programming. It would be nice to be able to assign a feature to more than one person at the same time.
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Christopher Davies
- Apr 23 2015
- Unlikely to implement
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Dec 23, 2015
Admin Response
As you know, Aha! features are designed in a way that a single person is assigned to a feature. Within features, we have requirements which can be assigned to multiple people. Requirements can be a way to assign different parts of a feature to multiple people who may be sharing the feature.
With this in mind, we do not currently have plans to allow features to be assigned to multiple people as we want to ensure that features have ownership and are not overlooked. We hope you can understand.
I understand the reasoning however the reverse is also true. For features that are equally owned by two people (something that happens very often in our projects), the fact that we can only list one name means there is less visibility and follow-up from all assignees on that issue. This means that it is more easily overlooked in our project. The requirements section is an option but doesn't have the visibililty that feature ownership has.
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I understand how Aha works (with sub requirements, etc), but that is not how the real world works. Not all companies using Aha work in an idealized Agile world, with perfect processess and workflows. The real world is messy, and in that world, assigning more than one person to be responsible for something is extremely common. This is a frustrating limitation.
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