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Release backlog refinement

Refine your release backlog in minutes

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The benefit of this AI skill

Ensure your release backlog is ready for implementation. This AI skill quickly reviews every feature in a release to spot if any important details are missing. The AI assistant looks for potential duplicates and checks each feature against a set of completeness criteria (including a link to a strategic initiative, product value score, estimate, customer feedback, and dependencies). It then summarizes the overall readiness of the release backlog and ranks the features in priority order — noting any that need further refinement. This saves you hours of time preparing for roadmap updates or sprint planning.

Tips to get the best results

  • Refine the completeness criteria to reflect the details you need for each feature

  • Adjust the priority criteria to match how your team prioritizes work

  • Take actions on the recommendations, like filling in missing details or removing duplicate features

  • Rerun the skill after you update links or fill in gaps to confirm release readiness

How to get started

  1. Select a release in your Aha! account

  2. Click the Elle icon to open the AI assistant

  3. Click the + icon in the prompt box and select Search the library

  4. Search for and select the Release backlog refinement skill

  5. Run the skill and work with Elle to refine the output

  6. Click Share to generate a link so the team can view the output

About the AI assistant in Aha! software

Accelerate your work with AI. The AI assistant in Aha! software is purpose-built for product development teams. It draws on advanced models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, automatically selecting the best one for each task. Use it to instantly create text, records, reports, wireframes, whiteboards, and prototypes. You can also modify, link, and analyze key information in your account.

Choose from a library of pre-built prompts — including requests, instructions, and agents — that are tuned for product development work. Or create your own to support workflows that are unique to your team. The AI assistant automatically tailors responses based on the Aha! record you are working on and can reference and retrieve other records in a prompt or report. Give it a try today and change the way you plan and build products.