Aha! Roadmaps Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 7.7 out of 10

Score

7.7 out of 10

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Pros

Comprehensive Product Management Suite: Many users have found Aha! Roadmaps to be a comprehensive product management suite that excels in breaking down product plans into initiatives, features, and user stories. This feature helps the organization understand the product plan and the driving factors behind individual work items.

Effective Prioritization: Aha! stands out from project management tools like Jira by providing prioritization based on major themes, features, and releases. Users appreciate this feature as it allows them to organize and prioritize features effectively, making it difficult to go back to a traditional project management tool.

Idea Management Portal: Aha! is particularly useful for idea management. It offers a portal for users to submit ideas and manage them through a workflow. Some users appreciate that ideas can be submitted through various channels, including email, ZenDesk, and SalesForce. The ability to attach account values to ideas submitted through SalesForce is also appreciated.

Reviews

21 Reviews

I won't manage a product without Aha!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 3, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Product team uses Aha! to manage our product backlog and perform release planning. Unlike other product management tools in the marketplace, Aha! allows us to quickly associate each feature to the value it will bring to the organization and to customers. We've integrated the product into several other SDLC tools so that we have an automated, and complete view into our processes. Additionally, we've leveraged the Aha! Ideas! portal which allows customers and internal team members to submit product ideas, and have those ideas immediately available within Aha! for review and possible assignment to our roadmap.

Mapping our work to value/strategy is a key differentiator between Aha! and other tools that we've evaluated or used in the past.

Pros

Mapping feature work to strategy/value.
Flexibility in adapting to how we work. (customization capabilities)
Integration into third-party tools.
Capturing ideas directly into the product.

Cons

No mobile app is available.
The hierarchy of theme/epic/feature/story doesn't line up easily with Jira.
The UI of the product is a little dated and could use some TLC.
The customization capabilities can sometimes make the product complex.
It can be laggy on occasion.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Verified User

Executive in Product Management (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

Great way to manage and prioritize all things software related in one place

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

September 25, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use Aha! across all IT and Code related functions at my organization to manage all software releases and fixes for current and future work in the company. It helps us create, prioritize, track, and monitor all work related to bug fixes, ticket requests, and future code release work for our systems.

Pros

Track all software related work in one place
Great way to prioritize work based on requirements and urgency
Extremely scale-able

Cons

Requires some dedicated work to get up and running
Not as "pretty" as some tracking systems
Can be overwhelming if you don't use it frequently

Likelihood to Recommend

For large organizations looking to manage and categorize a significant amount of ongoing work and backlogs, Aha! is an excellent resource and tool to manage everything and everyone in one place. It's easy to use and is a great tool to visualize what needs to be done and keep the work on track. Not necessarily recommended for smaller project-based work.

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Love using this product

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 16, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This is my second position where I have been able to use Aha! to assist in the overall product management of a company. My first was a larger one that was not ready to fully commit to integrating it into all of the support systems and was pretty much just a roadmap tracking tool. In my current position, I have just deployed Aha! for about 45 days, and we have already integrated it into Azure Dev Ops, and Microsoft Teams. We are also looking to integrate it with Mavenlink project management as well.

We have recently opened up the ideas portals and this has allowed us to present a simple way to interact with our customers, to allow them to enter, as well as vote on ideas for the product overall, to allow us to better guide the development organization towards building a product that meets business needs as opposed to simply keeping up with the Joneses on a feature by feature level.

Pros

Ideas portal for internal as well as external
An easy way to present your roadmap without having to build a new PowerPoint deck should something change.
Integration with third-party products is simple.
Their support staff is excellent, always available, and all former product managers, so their domain knowledge is unmatched.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Not only is Aha! pretty intuitive to use, the support is first class and their documentation is great!

Mike Jackson

Product Manager in Information Technology at Omnico (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Aha! delivers on the promise of product roadmapping in agile software product management

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 7, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it as the basis of our agile software development practice in conjunction with Rally and Github. It is used by the entire organization with various levels of complexity. It addresses the business problems of tracking upcoming and current work, as it is shared across multiple teams in the organization.

Pros

Work breakdown - it allows teams to do initiatives, capabilities features and stories all in the same product release.
Roadmapping - allows for simple combined visual plan of work breakdown across multiple initiatives.
Customization - allows different levels of work breakdowns to be available on different projects.
Integration with Rally and other tools.

Cons

Complexity of integration - each implementation of an integration with Rally has to be manually created.
Complexity of configuration - each project that has a customization has to be done independently.
Cost per license is too high for contributors.

Likelihood to Recommend

Aha! is well suited for large distributed teams with a substantial amount of requirements and different projects. It is also well suited for small teams that have a lot of divergent efforts. It is not well suited for creating a unified backlog from multiple large divergent products because it cannot well demonstrate the difference.

Benjamin M Berry

Lead Advocate, Enterprise Data Management in Information Technology at UnitedHealth Group (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Great play for the Product Management market

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 6, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Aha! is a great tool for features collection. Quite nice for scribble pad, such as " do this, make this, collect this." Very easy to use basic features, very easy learning curve for the basic features collection.

If you need more advanced options it becomes a bit more tedious and complicated and you may require help, but Aha! has great support and sometimes contacted me without even asking for their help!

Pros

Features collection.
Ideas scratch pad.
Detailed overview of collected ideas and features.

Cons

Advanced configuration and usage - not an easy UI/UX.
Out-of-the-box overview (e.g. show me all features from Group X).

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for:

<ul><li>Feature collection.</li><li>Ideas collection.</li></ul>

Gidon Leizer

Director of Product Management in Marketing at CyberArk (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Aha! for all your roadmapping needs

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 29, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Aha! is being used within our company on a team-by-team basis. It's more or less up to the manager and product manager what roadmap software they want to use.

The business problem it addresses is finding the best way to track project goals and timelines. With the fast pace environment we work in here, it's very helpful to have a tool that can best visualize your team's and individual progress on a project.

Pros

Collaboration encouragement - comment threads make it super easy to keep track of the team's input.
Milestones - Have these built into the tool help the team track progress on key goals and keep everyone motivated and up to date.
Great UI - everything is simply and clearly laid out for the best possible experience. Lots of customization too.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Aha! is perfectly suited as a project management tool for a fast paced team. A situation where it may not be well suited is if you're trying to find something similar to Pivotal Tracker or Jira. It seems better suited for high level management.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Aha! has helping our product team thrive in 2020 and beyond!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 12, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Aha! is highly utilized by our product team related to features and our roadmap. It keeps us organized and prioritized, so we're communicating effectively.

Pros

Building a roadmap
Feature request board
Collecting competitive intel

Cons

Aha! is a little expensive

Likelihood to Recommend

Aha! is very well suited for product teams of all sizes to build a detailed roadmap. Everything can be customized and changed as the company sees fit. It gives different levels of access that allow for certain members to make changes and others just to be able to view and stay abreast on a weekly cadence.

Verified User

Analyst in Product Management (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Aha is the penultimate product planning tool

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 17, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Aha is used by our organization as the primary method to manage end-to-end processes in the product management product lifecycle— from idea conception to end-of-life product control. From external, we leverage Aha to create and manage our product roadmaps, from Initiatives to features to stories that are communicated cross-functionally from the marketing to development.

Pros

Roadmapping
Feature creation and management
Integration with other development platforms
Visualizations of project timelines

Cons

The system administrator interface is somewhat clunky.
Difficult to manage initiatives visualization for larger organizations that create many of them.
Difficult to track released products by feature content.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is perfectly suited to product management processes such as feature creation, story mapping, etc. Where it starts to struggle is when it attempts to be a cross-functional tool for all departments. It is not suited well for teams such as Finance, Marketing and others that are not as linear or rigid in their processes. But as a PM tool, it's nearly perfect.

Verified User

Program Manager in Product Management (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Excellent tool for small companies!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 19, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Aha! is used by a large portion of the company. We use it across the accounts and products teams to keep track of ideas and requests on the products. It's useful as a tool to keep track of feature requests, ask our team members to vote on these ideas, see if the statuses on any of these feature requests change, and write and record comments from other clients. It addresses our previous business problem of having to manually keep track of requests via Google Forms and the spreadsheets the surveys would populate. It's a far easier tool to keep track of and monitor several requests. I honestly don't even remember how we managed before we had Aha!.

Pros

Excellent organization, because it allows us to filter by status and category
Easy enough to keep track of my own submitted ideas and items I've voted on
Beautiful comment threads to see everyone's thoughts
Great notification system to see what's changed and how, so I don't have to live and breathe Aha!

Cons

I wish the notifications could be streamlined, so that the text of the email was just simpler and easier on the eyes, and that I could respond to comments by replying to the email instead of opening up Aha! again.
A little more color wouldn't hurt. The UX is smooth, but the design is rather bland. It still gets the job done though.

Likelihood to Recommend

Aha! is best suited for a small to medium sized tech company that is looking for an easy way to keep track of feature requests in a simple way that allows us to communicate ideas to each other easily. Having also worked at Athenahealth, a large tech company that had several many more teams, Jira was ultimately a better tool to combine a request management system with a sprint planning system for teams that work in Agile. Otherwise, Aha! is perfect for where we are as a company and for what we are trying to achieve. One of its best strengths is that it is so easy to use

Susmita Paul

Analytics Associate at CipherHealth (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Aha! - One of the best Product Roadmapping software

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 3, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Aha! is extensively used by product management team. We as product managers need tools for visualization of our product road maps. Along with it, we want to keep track of it. Aha! is best tool for product road-mapping, no doubt. The types of boards it provide helps product management community in a better way.

Pros

Product road-mapping is best in Aha!
The types of boards it has gives flexibility to every kind of product managers.
It has various matrices to make the foundation for a good PRD.

Cons

Bug tracking needs to be improvised, JIRA has upper hand in this.
Notes section can be improved as we found less flexibility in Notes.
The integration of Tech team to use Aha! needs to be strengthened. As of now, Tech is reliable on project tracking software rather than Aha!

Likelihood to Recommend

If yours is a Product based company and has clear strategy defined for at least a year, Aha! can solve lot of your problems. Aha! gives your Product team a clear idea of how to proceed and where their products are going. The progress, the delays and strategy all are under one umbrella. Best thing is: from top-to-bottom, every product member can work on Aha!.

Himanshu Singh

Product Manager in Product Management at Conduira Education & Training Services Pvt Ltd (ConduiraOnline) (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Excellent tool for small companies!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 19, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Excellent organization, because it allows us to filter by status and category
Easy enough to keep track of my own submitted ideas and items I've voted on
Beautiful comment threads to see everyone's thoughts
Great notification system to see what's changed and how, so I don't have to live and breathe Aha!

Cons

I wish the notifications could be streamlined, so that the text of the email was just simpler and easier on the eyes, and that I could respond to comments by replying to the email instead of opening up Aha! again.
A little more color wouldn't hurt. The UX is smooth, but the design is rather bland. It still gets the job done though.

Likelihood to Recommend

Susmita Paul

Analytics Associate at CipherHealth (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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