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Amazing Product Managers Start Erasing Technical Debt and Stop Adding Features
July 9, 2015
Amazing Product Managers Start Erasing Technical Debt and Stop Adding Features

As product managers, we spend a lot of time understanding our customers and adding features to our backlog. We prioritize features with our executives and engineering…

Just Launched! — Duplicate An Entire Release and All Its Features
July 8, 2015
Just Launched! — Duplicate An Entire Release and All Its Features

A successful product release requires a cross-functional effort. Product describes it. Engineering builds it. Marketing is tasked with putting together go-to-market…

How Successful Product Managers Work With Tough Sales Teams
July 7, 2015
How Successful Product Managers Work With Tough Sales Teams

It always feels the same. You can tell by the tone in her voice. The VP of Sales is angry, very angry. That is because the latest release did not have the feature that…

How You Can Work Less and Get Rich
July 6, 2015
How You Can Work Less and Get Rich

Which part of the title interested you most — working less? More money? Or both? Most people I know like both equally. You know the get-rich fantasy images — the boat,…

Send the Development Priority of Your Features from Aha! to Jira
July 1, 2015
Send the Development Priority of Your Features from Aha! to Jira

A large number of customers integrate Aha! and JIRA to keep product management and engineering teams in sync. It’s critical to keep teams on the same page, especially…

My Name Is Zach Schneider — This Is Why I Joined Aha!
July 1, 2015
My Name Is Zach Schneider — This Is Why I Joined Aha!

I have a chronic problem with boredom. In life, I always charge forward through each class, job, and side project. I rarely find anything to keep my attention for more…

Meet Wayne, The World's Most Rotten VP of Product
June 30, 2015
Meet Wayne, The World's Most Rotten VP of Product

It’s hard to escape FIFA these days. The arrests of several officials on corruption charges have made global headlines for the past few months now. Clearly this is bigger…

Introducing the New Aha! Enterprise+ Plan
June 29, 2015
Introducing the New Aha! Enterprise+ Plan

We have been humbled by the feedback and growth of Aha! We are growing fast, very fast. We feel fortunate to have this opportunity and to work with so many great people…

Using Nested Selects for Performance in Rails
June 26, 2015
Using Nested Selects for Performance in Rails

Databases are fast, even at performing fairly complex operations. This is easy to forget in the age of ORMs and abstraction and many of us haven’t written a line of raw…

The Best Way to Prioritize Customer Ideas on Your Roadmap
June 23, 2015
The Best Way to Prioritize Customer Ideas on Your Roadmap

The dreams of product managers perish in the gap between what customers say and what they actually do. Product ideas gathered from customers are crucial. However, they…