October 22, 2015
How Successful Leaders Waste Time
I worked with a CEO who traveled — constantly. Whenever he had the chance to fly somewhere for a meeting, he would jump on the opportunity and say “I’m there.” He simply enjoyed…
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October 21, 2015
Just Launched! — Aha! Integrated With Microsoft Team Foundation Server
We continue to launch new integrations to ensure that product and engineering teams can easily work together. Today, we are excited to announce that we have added bi-directional…
October 19, 2015
5 Steps to Create a Brilliant Product Vision
You have an insight based that you think could lead to a product. Now you need a grand vision to match it. This is where many entrepreneurs and innovators in big companies veer off…
October 16, 2015
Why You Should Get Back in Your Box
Certain business phrases have entered our business vernacular and unfortunately stayed there. Like the notion of “work-life balance,” people who are “born leaders,” or the fallacy…
October 14, 2015
Just Launched! — New Slack + Aha! Integration
Slack provides a group chat platform for agile teams. The tool makes it easy to keep distributed groups informed and productive through real-time sharing of information. It also…
October 14, 2015
Why You Should Not Major in Engineering
My college algorithms class was the final weed-out course in the computer science program. It covered advanced topics like computational complexity and graph theory. If you passed,…
October 12, 2015
The 6 Ways to Save a Failing Startup
You might hear about successful startups so often you think the odds are on your side. But it’s quite the opposite. According to recent data, just half survive five years or more,…
October 8, 2015
The Top 7 New Aha! Features Launched in Q3 2015
A lot has happened since we sent out our last quarterly update in July. It certainly has been a busy summer for the team. We are pleased to announce another quarter of tremendous…
October 6, 2015
Just Launched! — View Points on Your Kanban Board
Many product and development teams use shared Kanban boards to increase the flow of work. It is an easy way to visualize who is doing what work and the status of their development…
October 6, 2015
Who Cares How Millennials Want to Work?
I am Generation X (if a generation really can define a person). Born between the Baby Boomers before me and Generation Ys after, in a group that is smaller than both. Working for a…