July 9, 2015
5 Secret Skills Every Great Leader Must Discover
I once had a boss that made life miserable. Every day he seemed to go out of his way to change my priorities and present my ideas and work as his own. I was trapped in his world of…
Aha! Blog
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 teams so…
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 materials,…
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 her sales…
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, the car, the…
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 when it comes…
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 than a few…
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 than…
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 and…
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 SQL in…