THIS! https://medium.com/@mkhoury/aha-a-few-quirks-in-my-favorite-product-management-software-8eb515fd9e78
My team and I just started using AHA! integrated with Pivotal and I couldn’t agree with you more on this limitation. The people working on the features need to be able to update the status and it’s definitely not worth $1200 a year. It especially makes no sense considering that the integration with Pivotal Tracker grants the developers this permission, why can it not be granted within the app itself for designers and others who work on features with the developers.
We launched 2 products that would help support the issue you have mentioned.
You can learn more about their capabilities here:
https://www.aha.io/teamwork/overview
https://www.aha.io/develop/overview
I too would love this feature.
Having an Engineering role would pretty much eliminate the need for 3rd party tracking system. Everything is already in Aha. But because of the price per use we are forced to use PT or Jira for Engineers.
I think Aha may be missing out on a profit center. The Engineering role could simply be a less expensive role that allows for status change & comments.