Aha! Reviews & Product Details

AHA has changed the way my team approaches product launches from the marketing side and we use the tool to keep our deliverables on time and manage approvals. I love the approval functionality so that we have a digital trail of what has been approved and when. While I haven't had a chance to use the capacity function, I'm excited that it's there and look forward to trying it soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This tool is really designed for product management and the marketing functionality feels like a bit of an afterthought. I've had to rename everything in our instance to make sure that the workflow made sense from a marketing perspective, but generally speaking now that it's configured it meets our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've always loved the templates for the "front part" of product management. The templates for strategic vision, strategic models, positioning, personas, and competitors are easy to use and visually appealing. They are also suitably customizable (e.g., I created a "Lean Canvas + template for my strategic model). I also like the roadmap feature where you can place multiple workspaces with their goals and releases in one roadmap. It makes the roadmap easy to communicate to both senior leadership and the general corporate audience easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The issue I've always had with Aha is the integration with development tools. The integration is what caused me to pass on Aha in the first run with my new company and go with a different tool. Another evaluation some months later showed some substantial improvements in the Aha / Jira integration, so we decided to switch to Aha. There are still some issues with integration, especially when we need to change the way some projects use Jira (e.g., we needed to change the states in Jira to better reflect how one project should be run, and it broke everything in Aha). I also have not used the idea portal because of issues in my previous experience with it (allowing external users to use the idea portal without letting the entire internet see it); however, I have asked someone to take a look into it to see if it will work better than our current process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like aha! Its blue futuristic appearance and the branch of added organizational value functionalities of ideas, contents, managed statistical processing, directed systematization's of product use operation, its great updates of digital domain of information, the principles of exploration of terms of its system, the adaptation of networks and route planning, the segment of text sharing and alteration of project schemes in real time, generate great reliability of use for the tools of this automated server integration of direct collaborations, being methods found in an interface with artificial intelligence and feasibility of intuitive speed, handling analysis of compliance with information receptions of prioritization of agendas and campaigns under functions of purchasing assistance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The system of aha! comes with an error of formation of metric properties of automatic performance, in which the managements cannot be attended in a linear way, skipping opening times elements of business action, api driven deployments, diffusion of selected documents, alterations in the time of content revision, generate that your main system contains failures in its initiation of unified network works and native commercialization of the cloud as sales and distribution of products of great credit value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robust capabilities for product strategy with great tools to establish vision, product models, positioning, personas, goals, competitors, and initiatives. Really great to align the product features and capabilities up to the goals and initiatives and strategy and show the connectedness of the work to the product strategy and show visibility for all stakeholders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike that the tool is not always intuitive and the terminology in product may be confusing for some users. The types of user access is somewhat limited, as is the customization, and the cost can be prohibitive for some organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its original and empowering features are based on a system's reaction to the search for corporate strategies that fit their needs and shortcomings so that they can be combated and eliminated from a business format. Its objective planning, communications panel, color coding, task management, management models, progress tracking and capacity monitoring help product managers to link a brilliant strategy to their team's work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The task management of aha! is compromised in circumstances where its programming makes evaluation forms that appear constantly making the programming to create roadmaps that redirect the actions that the user performs in this system, preventing the linking of ideas by the platform, so this inconvenience must be corrected to understand greater monitoring of management status and prioritization of tasks, making it more effective work of the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've never worked with a company that was so keen to help. A favorite exchange was when I was reporting a bug after a new release. My original support person went off shift and someone else took over the chat. I thought "it's okay for the guy to go home and have dinner!" The software itself helps us organize our product priorities like never before and multiple times a new release has gone out and I felt like Aha was reading my mind and solving my problems before I could even ask. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be challenging for our users (non Product Managers) to navigate and find what they are looking for. I just tell them to use the search capabilities, and that it's not really a system well-suited for poking around in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I used it for a while and I see they are having in the right direction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Still they lack some features to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. I liked the top down approach that Aha! adopts .. you need first to define your vision/goals/initiatives (strategy) before thinking releases/features/stories (work)

2. So organized and so customizable

3. You can integrate your Aha! with your agile tool like Jira/Azure DevOps or even other tools in your organization like Slack

4. Charts and reports are super useful

5. Notebooks one of the smartest features that you will need to share your plans with others who are either outside your Aha! or outside your organizations.

6. Use Aha! for planning and use your other tool (Jira/Azure DevOps) for working is like separation of concerns which I like so much Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most annoying thing when I work on Aha! is when you try to sort something on the roadmaps .. specially if you have a lot of items in there. When you try to update a date of one item everything else changes and you lose focus of the task at hand and you try to invest more time in fixing the roadmap.

I hope they fix it and make it more easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

After using a lots of different project management software solutions i recently came across AHA! and it really lives up to my expectations. The ability to create High level complex road maps and ease of organizing all the ideas complemented with a Nice User Interface just makes it more awesome . In addition to basic time management and scheduling tools , it also provides you a wide methods of data analysis that can produce graphs, charts, and reports on project details. Moreover the trial period duration is enough for us to choose weather we want this product or not . Moreover the Customer Support is really Good !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It needs a little time to get familiar with all its features and Not all of its features are easily accessible via mobile devices . It still need to make its user Interface little more friendly especially for those who are New to this . Other than this i don't think there is any major cons in this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software is easy to use and share ideas with others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven’t had anything dislike as of yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aha can be a sophisticated tool that's very flexible and configurable so it requires a little while to get fluent with everything it may possibly do, and be aware of the best workflow patterns with it. That said, once you discover your groove it gets much more easily. The support team help with that if. Pricing is also in the premium end of the market, particularly for smaller companies, but you do tend to obtain what you pay off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As with all complicated software, confidential details has a steep learning curve in fact it i difficult to build new processes from a company for an article rewriter program with this much coverage and that touches so many aspects of the business. Oftentimes when we began using crucial appetite for a certain purpose we found out that it was often required to make adjustments in other parts of the company to effectively use confidential details. A good example would be our adjustment of protocols in enterprise with JIRA to effectively leverage functionality in Aha!. This often meant work required in those areas that's not initially foreseen. However, when was said and done - after on-boarding the product major was a net increase in our ability to effectively manage projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aha is the most powerful and full-featured product management solution on the market, and most of what it aims to do, it does well.

It integrates with nearly everything, and provides enormous flexibility in how you choose to setup your workflow. It also provides good tutorials and and blog posts to help understand how to set up and use the software.

As well as providing essential features such as feature (& epic) backlog, roadmaps, and release planning, it also provides structure to help define top-down strategy, with its templates such as business canvas, SWOT, 5 factors, and its structure for defining goals and strategic initiatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has quite a steep learning curve, by virtue of being so configurable, and offering so much functionality. Figuring out the best way to use it, even with tutorial & primer resources, can be time consuming.

The lack of true Zenhub integration has been a pain point for us.

It is also quite expensive - and it will add up as you inevitably add more users, since there will be impetus to convert Reviewer accounts into paid seats over time - you simply get more/better participation from users that have read/write access to features, epics, releases, roadmap etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aha! is a complete roadmapping solution. I use it for the company, software and marketing roadmapping. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aha! has somewhat of a steep learning curve. But once you start to understand how it works it becomes a great tool. Most of the problem is user error not the software or platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool is focused on high level strategic planning, as opposed to detailed project and task planning, but also offers a way to link the two. For us, the Initiatives, Goals, Scorecard and Releases features look very promising for us to achieve the strategy tracking improvements we are after.

The first thing that drew our attention to Aha! was the varied selection of reports available out of the box, most of which are customizable. The ability to group products into product lines and create report views by these is a very strong feature. This allows us to create views for specific teams, tribes or entire portfolio.

We have not tried the Jira integration but we think that will allow us to keep our detailed planning in Jira, while adding a more consolidated high level view of things.

As a SaaS solution it is easy to get started without much upfront cost and effort. Some of the alternative tools we considered reusing from our existing portfolio required more config and setup to implement the portfolio we want to manage.

We were able to build out our portfolio on Aha! pretty much on our won without contacting the Aha! support team. We plan to use their help for the more advanced features. The support team has been reaching out to us periodically during the trial period. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some mid-level user documentation might be useful. If it exists, I did not find it easily, but there are a few good intro videos and you can always ask the support team on specific questions.

More info on the report options and capabilities would be useful. We learned by clicking around to see what happened. But we found some really good reports and some that didn't work so well because we were missing part of the data setup.

I noticed some minor UI slow down after using it for a while. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how visual Aha! is. It keeps my up-to-date and current on what releases Product has coming up. It not only helps with planning, but it ties the vision and overall roadmaps for specific product lines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only dislike, which really isn't one about the software, is that you need full team adoption to get the most out of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to have a shared roadmap, in a cloud tool meant to do just that across my organization. Before we had a Aha!, there were tons of spreadsheets and slides flying around and even if they were on cloud tools, there was no common understanding of what was oficially on the roadmap. With Aha! that has changed in only a couple of months. I can't wait to see the additional value we can extract.

Aha!, in my opinion, is the most robust option out there. There a few tools that I tried that have nice visualization options, but nowhere near the power and flexibility of Aha! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aha! is so powerful and so customizable that it took me a while to figure out how best to apply it to my particular situations and challenges. That said, their amazing customer success team has been and continues to work patiently and diligently to help me make the most out of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use Aha! for ideation and generation of features from our internal and external contributors. We like the ability to give our contributors a portal for easy access to submit, comment, vote and follow up on ideas. The contributor might not always know the best fit for an idea, we like the ability to move ideas between product lines with the click of the mouse. We started using the road map feature to better inform our upper level management of our progress. We are really excited about the integration with Azure DevOps. As a development team, we rely heavily on DevOps and the integration allows us to reduce the data entry aspect. The development team can comment in their system and the contributor can answer in Aha!, this creates a seamless flow. Overall, for the past year, we have been learning the platform and building out our processes. We are at a point now where we have embarrassed Aha! and will be promoting this throughout our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the biggest hurdles is understanding all of the options you have at your fingertips. The learning curve was a little difficult at first to make sure you were using the correct area of the platform. For example, there are multiple road map options. Finding which one fits best for your need was something we had to learn by trial and error. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aha! provides a complete set of tools to manage the full cycle of Product Management and Marketing.

I started using product development tools like Jira, and then VersionOne but each felt and operated as if they were developed for on purpose and evolved into product management tools. None handled product marketing.

From the moment a fellow CTO introduced me to Aha!, it became very clear that this tool was designed from scratch to handle the full spectrum of product management. The governance features that help the product owners focus on the business strategy and goals, help define product initiatives to deliver on those goals. Customer Personas help the product team remain focused on the customer.

Our product owners love working with feature development since they define both how the features should work, and they also get to prioritize feature delivery. The customizable Aha! Score helps align value with cost to develop.

For development, we integrate to Azure DevOps so the developers can focus on their development tasks while maintaining visibility into who we are building the features for and what business goals we are seeking to support.

Ideas are well handled since contributors feel welcome to ask for features and the evaluation process provides transparency into the promotion (or not) from idea to feature.

Product roadmaps provide information that executive management and board expect, in a usable format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool is incredibly powerful with many features that make easy to create a complex monster that consumes all your time, so you loose focus on the original goal - efficiently deliver a product that meets customer expectations and business goals.

It requires discipline to keep the model simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the multiple ways in which you can visually see how high level links down to every feature in every release. It helps me as a product manager ensure what we are developing has been through due diligence and fully vetted. I also love being able to customize the scorecards to thoroughly analyze and ruthlessly prioritize a backlog of customer input. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Only thing I dislike is I am probably not using Aha! to its full potential because of how feature rich it is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The product looks promising. Most questions I've had so far were met with substantial answers and recommendations. It seems like "sky's the limit" applies with Aha! and their support team backing it up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI can be busy, but this is always something that overwhelms people at first and once you get used to it things become familiar and you know where to look for the data you need.

Also, I'm using the Jira integration and there's a big learning curve here to get things situated properly with a complex Jira setup (multiple projects with various workflows, etc.) However, Mike in support has been absolutely fantastic at answering all the questions I've had so far (and there have been a LOT). Every other product I've explored for certain purposes (some similar to Aha!) didn't have answers or recommendations for the things I was trying to accomplish. Aha! is the first tool that appears to do what I need, and even if what I need is complex they have a support team eager to help guide me through it. I might find some obstacles/blockers down the road as I'm new to Aha! however I feel confident their team wants to help empower me to be successful.

Lastly, I first started the integration by mapping Jira Epics to Aha! Initiatives, which seems like the default out of the box recommendation. However I learned that mapping it to Master Features is the best way to approach it, and Master Features is not enabled by default. For learning purposes to get familiar with apps, I typically like to leave things configured by default until I encounter a need to modify settings. So, I had to redo my entire integration because it was configured by default which is not the recommended way of setting things up. This was the biggest pain for me so far. If you know this going in, then you're golden. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a great way to document client goals, product strategy, tie features to strategy, and build product roadmaps. We can share our work with the team before it is exported to JIRA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unless everyone uses the platform properly, sometimes it does not provide the insights we really need. Need more documentation about how to ensure proper usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.