The kitchen sink of product management tools ... that needs a little work
March 26, 2018

The kitchen sink of product management tools ... that needs a little work

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Aha!

Our product team uses aha.io to document our product strategy, prioritize initiatives, create and track roadmaps, then communicate those outcomes to our engineering team. The main reasons we looked for this kind of tool were:
  1. To organize our thinking using best practices from our product organizations
  2. To separate the product planning work from engineering/construction work we do in JIRA.
  • Very flexible workflows, custom fields, terminology, and interface design
  • Easy to get started with whatever elements you want to use without requiring an all in approach. For example, we started with features and releases. After we were comfortable with the product we started managing our goals and initiatives. Even later we opened an idea portal to work with the rest of our business
  • Nice clean look. Good documentation. Responsive support.
  • Cannot sync time estimation data between aha and JIRA. Cannot sync feature dependencies between aha and JIRA. Both of these limitations exist despite both systems supporting this data and their implementations being nearly identical.
  • Keeps adding new features (with sketch, invision, etc, etc out there who the hell wanted to create mockups using aha?!?) without finishing baking those they have. Take alook at the great input on their idea portal and you'll see ideas from years ago that (a) are quite popular and (b) unfinished
  • Expensive
  • Very helpful separating the concerns of our product and engineering teams. Both feel notably more productive working in their "own" tools (aka aha and JIRA)
Great for software product management. Hard to think of too many situations where a PM team couldn't get value from the product. Not well suited if you're cash strapped. Nor if you want something streamlined and simple.

Using Aha!

4 - Product management, UX Design, and Engineering