Every quarter we declare a release freeze and teams break it within days. How do you make windows stick?

A freeze enforced by email is a suggestion. Tier services, put the window in deploy tooling, price exceptions honestly, and judge the policy by incidents prevented.

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A freeze enforced by email is a suggestion. Tier services, put the window in deploy tooling, price exceptions honestly, and judge the policy by incidents prevented.

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