Are roles hierarchical?

If I have scrum master role at the project level , do I implicitly have the scrum master role on all teams under the project - i.e. even if I am not explicitly a member of a team under the project?

I am trying to configure permissions such that ONLY those with Scrum Master or Product Owner for a given team have permission to modify the dashboard. I have tried customizing the team permissions for a specific team but it still seems that those with Scrum Master (for example) at the project level can edit the team dashboard. Suggestions welcome.

I believe the only way to "override" a role assignment in a nested team
area is to explicitly give that user a different set of roles in that
nested team area (and I'm not even positive that would do it :-). But
even if that did work, it isn't very useful, because every time you gave
a new user a rule in the parent team area, to "override" that
assignment, you'd have to explicitly give that new user roles in all the
child team areas.

Work item 89455 was submitted to address this issue. Please feel free
to add comments to the work item if you'd like to support this request.

Cheers,
Geoff

klzemanek wrote:

klzemanekwrote:
If I have scrum master role at the project level , do I implicitly
have the scrum master role on all teams under the project - i.e. even
if I am not explicitly a member of a team under the project?

I am trying to configure permissions such that ONLY those with Scrum
Master or Product Owner for a given team have permission to modify
the dashboard. I have tried customizing the team permissions for a
specific team but it still seems that those with Scrum Master (for
example) at the project level can edit the team dashboard.
Suggestions welcome.

Correction to my comment below: There currently is *no* way to
override/cancel a role assignment in a child team area. The most you
can do is redefine the permissions that a given role has in your team
area (and that is the case only if the parent team area permissions
haven't been declared to be "final"). That would be a very clumsy way
to address this use case, so we're discussing alternatives in work item
89455.

Cheers,
Geoff

Geoffrey Clemm wrote:

I believe the only way to "override" a role assignment in a nested team
area is to explicitly give that user a different set of roles in that
nested team area (and I'm not even positive that would do it :-). But
even if that did work, it isn't very useful, because every time you gave
a new user a rule in the parent team area, to "override" that
assignment, you'd have to explicitly give that new user roles in all the
child team areas.

Work item 89455 was submitted to address this issue. Please feel free
to add comments to the work item if you'd like to support this request.

Cheers,
Geoff

klzemanek wrote:
klzemanekwrote:
If I have scrum master role at the project level , do I implicitly
have the scrum master role on all teams under the project - i.e. even
if I am not explicitly a member of a team under the project?

I am trying to configure permissions such that ONLY those with Scrum
Master or Product Owner for a given team have permission to modify
the dashboard. I have tried customizing the team permissions for a
specific team but it still seems that those with Scrum Master (for
example) at the project level can edit the team dashboard. Suggestions
welcome.

To get a better impression how operational behavior and permissions work in RTC 2.0 have a look at
http://jazz.net/library/article/292
and
http://jazz.net/library/article/291


Ralph