Aha! 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
HYPE Enterprise
Score 9.0 out of 10
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HYPE Innovation offers innovation management software and services, offering tools to address a range of innovation scenarios. HYPE lets organizations engage employees, customers, and partners in idea generation and collaborative problem-solving. HYPE Enterprise is presented as value creation hub, allowing innovation activities to be tracked on a unified platform.
HYPE states its client community includes global companies such as Airbus, AkzoNobel, ConocoPhillips, Deutsche Post DHL Group,…
Aha! is the all around product management tool. You need something once you build out a product management role and grow beyond a small scrum team with one or two products. JIRA, Pivotal, and project management tools don't cut it for aligning [engineering] with product initiatives once the backlog starts to scale.
On the other hand, there are several unfinished features that my peers all admit to having to work around: Capacity Planning, Salesforce Integration, Roadmap Display Flexibility, User Feedback, etc. This year has been all about reporting in terms of feature releases. As Aha! grows, they will fill in these other areas, so stay tuned.
Idea Generation campaigns aimed at solving a specific problem. Contributors can be limited to certain groups, or it can be open to the whole organization.
Open Innovation campaigns aimed at getting solutions from external sources (add-on module required).
Continuous improvement process specific to functional areas.
Processing, sorting, evaluating and scoring ideas.
Hype Innovation allows for a full onsite implementation behind a firewall and does not need to communicate to an external server. This is a major advantage for a defense company.
Hype Innovation is easily configurable by a systems admin with very limited knowledge of the product.
Product Updates are rolled out quarterly and offered to all clients.
Hype Innovation has a specific instance of their Hype software platform that is aimed at their clients and improving Hype itself. Feedback from their management is very quick.
Notes - There's not a great place to leave lots of notes or instructions, almost like a Confluence page. Although not required, it would be nice to have this built in.
Learning curve - As with most new tools, there's a bit of a learning curve to become proficient.
If you have the time and resources there really isn't anything you can't get Aha! to do for you in regards to managing workflow and releases. The Prioritization features are top of its class, the dashboards are getting better and better every day and the team all seem to really enjoy using it to manage their workloads.
When we signed up for Aha!, we were assigned an Aha! team members to help us with training/questions. The meeting was set weekly, and it exponentially helped with our familiarity with Aha! Support is beneficial and has a lot of experience working with product teams.
productboard was used in the organization when I arrived, but after assessing productboard, I felt it was too lightweight for our ambitious product goals. It's also critical, especially in a startup, that we focus our limited capacity on the work that matters most. Aha! far and away had superior capabilities in defining strategy directly in the product and associating all of our work to the strategy. Aha! is a serious product management tool and I found productboard to be more of a simple backlog management tool.
Longstanding issues with products and services have been made visible to the wider company and many solutions have been identified.
A common idea management platform has allowed management to gauge the level of employee involvement and cross functional communication.
Safe storage and archiving of ideas has enabled the company to keep track of inputs over time and refer back to ideas that were not relevant at the time of generation.
The added workload of managing the innovation platform has meant that more money has had to be spent on the individual responsible for the platform.
