Aha! is a great tool for high level strategic planning and idea bank management - not so much for day-to-day execution.
May 11, 2018
Aha! is a great tool for high level strategic planning and idea bank management - not so much for day-to-day execution.
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Aha!
Aha! is used at my organization for roadmap planning and idea bank management. It allows product managers a way to product plan, map dependencies, communicate things that ship, and collaborate on strategic direction for our solutions.
- Provides an easy to understand visual for upcoming releases and what is included.
- Makes it easy for Product Managers to interact directly with users via the Idea Bank portal.
- Provides a way to link dependencies and related features to help understand expected feature releases.
- Policing the idea bank to make sure ideas are specific and representative of a single idea is a manual task.
- There are a lot of times when I save and close an item and it just disappears from my current view. This is usually due to user error, it just seems too easy to make those errors all too often. I wish I was warned if I'm about to save (or close) a record that is going to disappear from my current view.
- I wish there was easy to find, approachable training material to teach me how to use parts of the system that I don't even look at today (such as Personnas)
- My stakeholders are more informed with the expected delivery dates of certain features.
- My users seem to appreciate the interaction on the idea bank.
- The idea bank gives me an easy way to communicate the value our feature releases are providing (number of ideas/votes responded to).
Aha! is a better fit for the specific type of strategic planning that I do. The other tools are more intended for other grains of planning and/or execution.