Aha! roadmaps for Jira

Aha! will help us massively with our digital transformation efforts and in addition, introducing agile in our organisation. I’ve used the tool over the past 7 years at other organisations, and when I started in my new position having aha! was my one and only requirement to have. It will help us present to our business our development roadmaps, as well as encouraging our staff to use the ideas portal as we want continuous improvement. The integration to JIRA and Microsoft teams is also essential as we need all of our tools to sync up nicely together. The support from Aha! is also fantastic with timely responses and great knowledge bank.

Aha provides much needed tooling to organize and plan work larger than Epics. The customer suggestions and voting capabilities give our teams additional scores to support our backlog ranking. Passing the Aha Score down to custom fields lets us view a business score value in our backlog and on the story itself. The capabilities to show roadmap, gantt, and custom pivot views give our product owners the tooling to drive quarterly release planning and to present dynamic "big picture" content. The custom score cards lets the PM team do their research and analysis with fields I would not want to embed inside JIRA issues. This is my 3rd Aha-JIRA integration, and my advice to anyone integrating is 'read the best practices', 'talk to your scrum masters', 'talk to the release management role', 'plan the integration as a collaboration" --- confirm you are synchronized with the development teams' JIRA practices and how you both want the integration to work. I would not yet give it 4 stars, as all 3 experiences revealed what can easily happen if a PM team rushes to implement 'their' tool without truly understanding the JIRA fixVersion=release as a central part of the Aha data model, or without understanding how to configure the integration, or without advising the JIRA admin on Aha requirements for organizing the projects.

Aha! gives great tools for Product Manager keeping Requirements and Roadmaps together while Product development teams can use Jira. Two-way integration with Jira is super easy to deploy and works like a charm. Last but not least Aha! Support earns five stars out of four - all issues that I had have been solved quickly.

"Aha!" is good roadmap tool, but IMHO it is have not enough automations and custom fields as it is in Jira. But support is outstanding and they trying to completely resolve all appear issues, so I'd like to star support 11 Ahas of 10.

Aha! technical support is as good as anything I've seen in the industry in over 30 years. They are unbelievably responsive and extremely knowledgeable of their product. We initially encountered some connectivity issues (mostly self-induced), yet they were committed to helping get our Jira integration operational. They have since been a true partner in our operations using this product.