The Top 9 Aha! Launches in Q1 2022

What does "software differently" actually mean? You might have seen this phrase recently on the Aha! website or blog. I believe it is about reimagining your product development process so the entire team can work in unison to build lovable products. This is why our team at Aha! continues to launch new functionality every week — to help you achieve amazing things and be happy doing it.

Our suite of product development tools now provides everything you need to turn raw concepts into valuable new capabilities — so you can collaborate effectively and deliver the most value.

We were thrilled to introduce Aha! Create earlier this month. Our new digital notebook gives product builders a dedicated place to capture, refine, and bring concepts to life. Use text-based notes and online whiteboards to ideate in the format that you prefer and funnel creativity directly into the product development process. If you would like to try Aha! Create, you can apply to join the early access program that will begin shortly.

This quarter we also opened a new data center in Europe. We wanted to make it easy for customers in the EU to choose a regional data center. If you are a new customer, you can choose the EU data center when you sign up for a trial of any Aha! product. Existing customers with annual subscriptions may choose to migrate to the EU data center for a one-time fee. Please contact us at support@aha.io to learn more.

Of course we also kept the momentum going on enhancing our existing products — including custom portal pages in Aha! Ideas, better capacity planning in Aha! Roadmaps, and new agile reports in Aha! Develop.

Let's take a look back at the best new features launched over the past few months:

New in Aha! Ideas

We delivered two major capabilities to help you take idea management to the next level. Notes are perfect for documenting details — such as research plans and customer interview notes — in one place. And the ability to add custom pages to your ideas portal provides an exciting new way to share your product plans with customers.

Capture idea management information

All Aha! Ideas users now have access to our powerful notes functionality. This gives you a central place to collaborate on and share team documents. As part of this update, we added three new note templates to help you plan customer research, document your feedback review process, and communicate product updates in a consistent way. Of course, you can also create your own templates using rich formatting options such as tables, images, and call-out boxes.

Share plans via your ideas portal

Many of you were thrilled with the launch of custom portal pages. You love having the ability to display a roadmap, report, or note in your ideas portal — so you can proactively communicate roadmaps and announcements with your community. This functionality increases the value of using Ideas Advanced and Aha! Roadmaps together to tightly integrate customer feedback into your roadmapping process.

New in Aha! Roadmaps

This quarter we enhanced our powerful capacity planning functionality and improved how large teams manage information. We also streamlined the way Aha! Roadmaps and Aha! Develop work together — so you can quickly assign work to the right engineering team and track everything that is being worked on.

Set realistic delivery plans

We keep improving our sophisticated functionality for planning work capacity. You can now view the team's availability based on whether work is completed sequentially or in parallel on the capacity report. We also added the option to estimate capacity for teams in story points in addition to people, hours, or cost. These enhancements help you plan more accurately — so you can deliver against your plans with confidence.

Group related work details

Customers on our Enterprise+ plan can now add up to five custom tabs to record layouts. This enhancement is ideal for teams that use multiple custom fields to capture detailed information about product work — such as design details, financial metrics, or compliance regulations. Grouping related information in a custom tab makes it much easier for everyone to view and update.

Stay aligned with engineering

We delivered two updates to help you use Aha! Roadmaps and Aha! Develop together even more seamlessly. The ability to bulk assign epics, features, and requirements to the right engineering team helps you move work efficiently through your product development process. We also made it possible to include all of these record types in a single report — so you can get a complete view of everything engineering is working on and the status.

New in Aha