Lockit allows you to easily and efficiently manage your team’s resources. With lockit you can create shared resource, unlock/lock these resource, get updates when resource is released/locked on channel and set alerts when a resource is released.
What is a resource?
A resource is anything that can only be used by a limited set of people at a time. This could include servers, license keys, conference rooms, company cars, etc.
The Old Way:
Person 1: "Hey, is anyone using the staging server? I need it for a couple of hours."
Crickets
(Person 1 goes away and starts using the staging server)
A few moments later...
Person 2: "Hey, who is using the staging server? I had a long-running task running since yesterday! All my progress is now lost."
With Lockit :
Person 1 : @Lockit lock staging
Person 2 : @Lockit lock staging
@Lockit : Resource staging is locked by @Person 1 till 2014/02/18 6:39 AM PST
Use-cases
- Avoid conflicts when using servers.
- Share license with teams.
- Reserve a conference room ahead
- Get Alerts when a resource get free