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    Aha! Roadmaps

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/AAha! Roadmaps is used to set strategy, prioritize features, and share visual plans. It includes Aha! Ideas Essentials for crowdsourcing feedback. For an integrated product development approach, Aha! Roadmaps and Aha! Develop can be used together. The software is available with a 30-day trial.

    $59

    per month per user

    Growth Forge

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    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Growth Forge is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing enterprise innovation portfolios. The platform provides a shared methodology, portfolio-specific evaluation criteria, standardized financial models, and portfolio-level reporting for new-product and new-business development initiatives. Growth Forge replaces separate presentation templates, spreadsheets, and tracking systems used for strategy development, project evaluation, financial forecasting, and…

    $495

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Aha! RoadmapsGrowth Forge
    Editions & Modules
    Premium
    $59
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $99
    per month workspace owner or contributor
    Enterprise+
    $149
    per month workspace owner or contributor
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    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional DetailsStartup pack available for early stage companies.
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    User Ratings
    Aha! RoadmapsGrowth Forge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (22 ratings)
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    Usability
    6.3
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    Aha! RoadmapsGrowth Forge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Aha
    It is great for organizations that want to ensure that the work they focus on is the work that will have the most impact on value and drive them toward their strategic objectives. I consider it to be a real Product Management tool. If all you are looking for is a tool to hold your product backlog or collect customer feedback, then Aha! is probably going to be overkill for your needs
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    Pros
    Aha
    • Aha! is an all around product management suite. It is great for breaking product plans into initiatives, features, and user stories. This helps the organization understand the product plan and what is driving individual work items. Unlike Jira and project management tools, it helps you prioritize by major themes, features, and releases. Once you start to use it, you can't go back to a project management tool because the views for organizing and prioritizing features just isn't there.
    • Aha! also excels at idea management. You can create a portal for users to submit ideas and manage them through a workflow. Users can submit ideas through a variety of channels, including email, ZenDesk, and SalesForce. You can even attach account values to an idea submitted through SalesForce, though the UI in SalesForce is a little kludgy. This is a great feature for those that have the capacity to manage feedback this way, but be aware that it takes time to manage.
    • Aha! works pretty well with Jira so that project managers can have their backlog that is understandable to the business and engineering can break down those work items however they want.
    • Aha! also has a lot of useful integrations: Slack, ZenDesk, Zapier, etc. It also integrates with every major software project management tool on the market: Jira, Pivotal, Rally, Redmine, and TFS.
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    Cons
    Aha
    • The roadmap feature presentation web page could use some better visuals. It's a little bland and grey.
    • The mobile app only shows you what you are assigned. I am not able to manage through the mobile app--I need to use the web page.
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    Usability
    Aha
    I think Aha! works really in general, it offers a very comprehensive and well-structured platform that supports strategic product management at scale. Although there is a learning curve for new users and a few areas to be improved. Overall, it is highly usable for experienced product teams who need a robust roadmap tool.
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    Support Rating
    Aha
    We've always had excellent support whenever we need help from the company or need questions answered regarding the setup and installation of the product. Tickets are answered in a timely fashion and there's minimal back and forth to get issues resolved, which are rare.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Aha
    In terms of outright features, a lot of roadmapping tools have the same feature set. We chose Aha! based on look-and-feel, the easy learning curve, and the reviews it has. Between collaboration, milestone tracking, comment threads, and content importing and exporting, we had every feature in Aha! that we were looking for.
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    Return on Investment
    Aha
    • It has helped us improve our product lifecycle communication. We have less wasted time spent figuring out where the project is and what it's waiting on. This has helped departments further down the project better use their time so they're already aligned with what's happening rather than waiting for a handoff.
    • Aha! has helped include our customers more in our product planning and especially in our bug fixes and new feature roadmaps.
    • Aha! has improved our strategy meetings or roundup discussions by storing everything in one place. They're shorter and more focused.
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    ScreenShots

    Aha! Roadmaps Screenshots

    Screenshot of Goal TrackingScreenshot of Ideas PortalScreenshot of Features BoardScreenshot of Visual RoadmapScreenshot of Progress ReportScreenshot of the collaborative whiteboard

    Growth Forge Screenshots

    Screenshot of The Portfolio Dashboard makes dissimilar innovation projects comparable on the same evaluation criteria and financial models — replacing the fragmented patchwork of PowerPoint templates and Excel models.Screenshot of Growth Forge treats each strategy as a Strategy Hypothesis Model — structured across six dimensions, refinable through evidence, and comparable across the portfolio.Screenshot of Financial modeling tools — including Monte Carlo simulation and sensitivity analysis — let teams build credible forecasts without Excel mastery or strategic finance expertise.Screenshot of The Strategy Evaluation summarizes the hypothesis against stage-specific criteria by desirability, feasibility, and viability — so investment decisions (Continue, Pivot, Pause, Stop) rest on evidence rather than presentation quality.Screenshot of Built-in AI assistance accelerates strategy modeling; features are user-initiated, transparent, and require explicit user approval before results enter a project.Screenshot of Multiple AI assistants can run simultaneously in the background, so users can continue working on other aspects of their project instead of waiting for AI responses.