In Howwe, there are different roles that provide various types of access and capabilities within the platform. Understanding these roles helps your team maximize its work, delegate tasks, and ensure the right people have the correct access. Let’s go through the different roles and what they entail.
Roles in Howwe:
Initiative Owner
Is the ultimate responsable for an initiative
Can edit all data related to an initiative:
Name and description
Purpose and objectives
Start and end dates
Involved teams
Plan and mark milestones as completed for the initiative.
Can plan activities for all involved teams.
Initiative Admin
Supports the Initiative Owner and has the same permissions but is not ultimately responsible.
Leader
Has full access to the team's setup, including changing roles for team members.
Can start and manage Acceleration meetings, update MIG (Most Important Goals), and view each team member’s contribution to the sprint.
Also has access to all teams under their own and can see all details, including sprints and Key Activities.
Team Admin
Supports the team leader han has the same permissions
Sprint Admin
Can create and edit sprint activities in the team's current and planned sprints.
Also sees detailed history and progress in sprint planning.
Team member
Can see their own team and its Key Activities and MIG.
Each week, they report their contribution to the sprint.
They can also see other teams' MIGs and Key Activities, but have no access to edit or view details of these teams.
What can each role see in Howwe?
Depending on the role a user has, what they can view and access in the platform will vary.
Initiative Owners have full permissions to administer an initiative and are designated as ultimately responsible for the initiative.
Initiative Admins have full permissions to administer an initiative.
Leaders have full access to the team and its setup, including underlying teams.
Team admins has same permissions as the leader
Sprint Admins can edit and create sprint activities within their team.
Team Members can view everything in their own team, including Key Activities and MIG, but cannot edit or see individual contributions from other team members.
Changing roles in your team:
To do this, you need to have Leader permissions.
Go to My Team in the navigation menu.
Click on the Members tab.
Select the member whose role you want to change and click Change Role.
Choose the new role and save your changes.
Appoint Initiative Owners and Initiative Admins:
To do this, you need to have Initiative Admin permissions.
Under Strategic Plan you will find the Initiative Admin Panel in the top right corner.
After accessing the Initiative Admin Panel you can add Initiative admins under the Manage Admin Tab
