Hey all, who's been successfully using Aha! for roadmaps management and task management?
I'm struggling to get a convenient view of major releases and in the same panel to view all to-do's, that would fall under each feature/release. It seems that it's purely for feature management but doesn't allow to filter on a more granular level. Is it me or Aha is not the most intuitive tool and a bit "old school"?
Yes - Aha! is cumbersome. Much like JIRA, it is bogged down by infinite options and really requires someone that has had prior success to design and implement the buildout. I've found that you'll need to make compromises in both systems and get a lot of pushback from people that live in one side or the other, making those compromises very difficult to reach.
I worked at a medium-sized company (400-ish) and they were all in on Jira and wanted to implement Aha!. We spent over a year and never made compelling progress. Other companies in the Vista (PE firm) portfolio had found success, but we did not.
I think the dream of having info flowing in and out of JIRA and syncing with Aha! is a bit of a pipe dream. We never reached that point, so my opinion could be biased and uniformed. We did, however, invest a lot to get there and stumbled with a lot of mechanics and a crazy amount of complexity in how you use both JIRA and Aha!.
My personal preference is a tool called Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse), which is made by a team that came from PivotalTracker. They built a kanban-focused tool that is great for agile and have been building around that core for the past 8 (or so) years. You'd get great story-level management with the ability to move up through epics, milestones, and (I'm sure) lots more (as they have continued to build). Shortcut is not bogged down by infinite options. It is intentionally simple. It has a lot of integrations with other popular tools, but the core exists within one product, which eliminates a lot of complexity in mapping/syncing JIRA to Aha!.
Thank you so much for such an elaborative response! I even tested Wrike (again), ran into the same problem: no way to drill down into individual subtasks/tasks when it's sorted not by status but a project (in Aha! would be feature) instead.
I will test Shortcut, thanks for the recommendation! Appreciate you took time to write your opinion.
