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Aha! Roadmaps

Score7.7 out of 10

114 Reviews and Ratings

What is Aha! Roadmaps?

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.

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Goal Tracking
Ideas Portal
Features Board
Visual Roadmap
Progress Report
the collaborative whiteboard
a central knowledge hub

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Aha! Roadmaps to capture ideas from end users, manage communications internally and externally, prioritize features and plan releases. The business problem it addresses is that there was no central platform/channel that manages all the ideas and feature requests, there could be duplicate work and effort within the product team.

Pros

  • Gather user submission, has different ways of sorting.
  • Manage comments for internal and external.
  • Idea votes help a lot on the feature prioritization.

Cons

  • Building customized report and dashboard.
  • For a large portfolio, navigating through hundreds of records can be time consuming.
  • Export functionality can be improved.

Return on Investment

  • Improved strategic alignment and visibility
  • Increased efficiency in planning and communication
  • Higher platform and maintenance cost

Usability

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, Miro, Figma, Microsoft Teams

Aha! Roadmaps For product roadmaps

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My team uses Aha! Roadmaps to prioritize customer feedback of our software and ensure we can apply the feedback to our roadmap. Our product team has three releases each year and bases all of their releases on client feedback, which is input into Aha! Roadmaps. The sales team can also track requests and promptly let the client know that a feature has been requested or rejected.

Pros

  • Creating visual roadmap
  • Prioritizing product releases

Cons

  • Integration with CRM
  • Easier interface

Return on Investment

  • Improved business roadmap
  • Improved NPS scores

Usability

Love using this product

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.

Return on Investment

  • It has been able to deliver a good overall view of all the items we have going on in ADO.
  • We are in the process of transforming from waterfall to agile development and to be able to see an overall picture of the work items is invaluable.

Other Software Used

Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server), MS SharePoint, Microsoft Office 365

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

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.

Return on Investment

  • It has drastically improved our agile practice.

Other Software Used

Rally Software (formerly CA Agile Central)

Great play for the Product Management market

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).

Return on Investment

  • Fast and quite easy integration.
  • Does the work of other tools in fraction of the time.

Other Software Used

Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Atlassian Confluence, Microsoft Teams