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Status Unlikely to implement
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Created by Guest
Created on Jan 19, 2016

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Lock Release and Features

Once we have created a release and scoped all the items into it, it would be helpful if we could "soft lock" the features in that release. A soft lock could be an option on each release with a toggle and a message. Once the toggle is ON and a new feature is attempting to be added to that release, the message appears. The feature can still be added on clicking OK to the message.

 

An example of the text might be "The scope of this release was agreed on the xx/xx/xxx - please raise a change request before adding this feature"

  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Jan 20, 2016

    Currently contributors and product owners can move items into existing releases, while reviewers and viewers do not have these permissions. Leveraging user roles and permissions is one way to "lock" releases so that some users cannot make changes. Another potential workaround is to enforce this offline that once a release has been set to a certain status, that users are no longer allowed to add new features.

    At this time, we do not have plans to make changes to the user permissions model based on feedback from the community and current priorities. We hope you can understand.

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  • Guest
    Mar 29, 2022

    The "locking" of a release helps to prevent any accidental movement of the features from and to the release, especially if you are scaling Aha across numerous contributors, teams, geos, etc. Any change (add, delete, move) to a feature should require an "unlock + comment/reason for the change". Enforcing it offline does not prevent accidental changes to the release scope especially if you want to scale Aha.

  • Joao Boesso
    Nov 16, 2017

    I would definitely like and use something like this. I can understand this not being a big problem for external products, but if you're levering aha to build internal infrastructure where the product speed is way quicker, this will be a great way to control how the release is being managed.

  • Guest
    Jan 20, 2016

    Thanks for the workaround\solution. Totally understand :) After all, we're all product managers. Have a great day!

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lock ordering of features in a release

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i would like the ability to freeze the order of features in a release so no one can accidentally rerank the features. our planning process is all features are ranked by their scorecard and then our product line executive gets to manually adjust th...
Joe Granville over 1 year ago in Releases 0 Unlikely to implement
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Release Soft-lock

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Ability to block new features being added to a release but still allow existing features to be edited, including ability to change the release value, and move feature out of the release.
Victoria Morrella over 2 years ago in Releases 0 Unlikely to implement
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Ability to lock feature board

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We have a platform product and our team is organized based on function. This means that a product manager and a release manager would have the permissions in Aha! at the product level. Occasionally, release managers will accidentally move a featur...
Guest over 4 years ago in Features 0 Unlikely to implement