Control the process of Product Owners changing story content

Question

What is the best way to control Product Owners enhancing a story once it is in production.

Stories are being changed and amended but without anyone bringing it to the attention of dev management. Need a process where changes are proactively flagged so the impact can be reviewed and assessed.

Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted Answer

One of the ways to do this would be to prevent edits to the story after it goes past a certain state in the workflow (like Resolved or Ready for Prod or something similar).

You can do this using workflow properties. And you can even restrict the permission to a certain group after a stage in the workflow.

That is a way of locking down the tool. You might also want to consider controlling it via process - by educating the product owners, discussing the changes in retrospective sessions, actively watching JIRA tickets and so on.

Ryan Fish · Accepted Answer

Sounds like the PO and developer team need to talk more often to become more transparent :) You can create a JQL query and subscription: project = and updatedDate >= -<3h> where updatedDate can be h hours, d day, w weeks