How to use the Change freeze plan template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Change freeze plan template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Change freeze plan”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Announce the dates a month ahead so work lands early. Keep the exception route simple, and plan the thaw: the first day back is the riskiest.”
Fill in each part
- Get ready 3 weeks before
- Soft freeze 1 week before
- Hard freeze 24 Nov – 2 Dec
- Thaw 3–5 Dec
- Look back 10 Dec
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Change freeze plan board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Agent control room
Watch and steer an AI agent: it posts its plan, status and tasks here; you move cards and comment to redirect it.
Technical design doc
Lay out a technical design for review: context, goals and non-goals, the proposal, alternatives considered, risks and rollout.
Migration plan
Move data or traffic from an old system to a new one in safe, reversible steps, with a check before each step.
Tech debt register
Known shortcuts in the codebase with what each one costs today, the risk it carries and the fix you would make.
Load test plan
Plan a load test before a launch or peak: the traffic you expect, what you will simulate, what counts as passing and what you will watch.
Infrastructure capacity forecast
Forecast when each key resource runs out at current growth, so you can order, scale or redesign before it becomes an outage.