May 1, 2020 release notes
New
This week we introduced capacity planning for teams. Enterprise+ customers can now use planning scenarios, customized work schedules, and team-based estimates to visualize the effect your teams' capacity has on your ability to deliver against your roadmap.
Improvements
Automation rules, available to Enterprise+ customers, now support flexible assignments. Previously, a rule could only assign work to a specific user you selected. Now, rules can assign work to any user who is listed in another field.
We have added a new custom field type. The one-to-many custom field links your Aha! records and custom tables. Unlike the many-to-many custom field, it allows you to ensure a single selection.
The Aha! API now supports proxy vote organizations and contacts.
In support of this week's launch of capacity planning for teams, the workspace settings for capacity planning for individuals have moved to Settings ⚙️ Workspace Capacity planning. Now all capacity planning settings are in the same place.
Fixes
When an integrated feature was moved to a new release/version in your development system, that change would not be automatically reflected in Aha! if the release was not already linked in Aha!
- Documents
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- AI writing assistant
- Introduction to whiteboards
- The whiteboard toolbar
- Add and edit whiteboard content
- Advanced whiteboard shapes
- Add media to whiteboards
- Collaborate on whiteboards
- Convert whiteboard content to Aha! records
- View Aha! records on whiteboards
- Create a whiteboard presentation
- How to create a custom whiteboard template
- How to build a roadmap in five steps
- How to visualize linked dependency statuses at scale
- How to import your backlog from Jira
- How to show the strategic progress at multiple levels
- How to identify schedule risks with calculation columns
- How to visualize cross-team capabilities with custom tables (Enterprise+)
- How to add a custom field
- How to pull work from Aha! Roadmaps into Aha! Develop
- How to share a report, roadmap, or view
- How to identify and prioritize high-value ideas
- How to import a Jira backlog into your Aha! account as ideas
- How to edit a status workflow
- How to build your product strategy
- How to host a collaborative brainstorming session
- Best practices for stakeholder alignment: Set product strategy
- Best practices for stakeholder alignment: Review customer feedback
- Best practices for stakeholder alignment: Prioritize the best ideas
- Best practices for stakeholder alignment: Create your product roadmap
- Best practices for stakeholder alignment: Manage product launches
- Best practices for stakeholder alignment: Communicate roadmap progress
- Best practices for linking your work to strategy
- Best practices for tracking OKRs
- Best practices for configuring Aha! to support SAFe®
- Best practices for configuring Aha! to support the Pragmatic Framework
- Best practices for tracking product development risks
- Best practices for managing cross-functional requests
- Best practices for setting product strategy
- Best practices for capturing and prioritizing customer ideas
- Best practices for launching your ideas portal
- Best practices for managing product platforms
- Best practices for managing solution offerings
- Best practices for managing product components
- Best practices for managing complex product bundles
- Best practices for creating a product information hub
- Best practices for using documents to collaborate with stakeholders
- Enterprise+ plan features
- Advanced custom layouts (Enterprise+)
- Automated scorecard metrics (Enterprise+)
- Automation (Enterprise+)
- Back up your account (Enterprise+)
- Configure team capacity planning (Enterprise+)
- Custom roles (Enterprise+)
- Custom tables (Enterprise+)
- Custom worksheets (Enterprise+)
- Enable IP address based access control (Enterprise+)
- Estimate work for capacity planning (Enterprise+)
- Getting started with capacity planning (Enterprise+)
- Integrate with security webhooks (Enterprise+)
- Link custom tables to each other (Enterprise+)
- Monitor your account activity (Enterprise+)
- Reference Aha! Roadmaps fields in custom worksheet equations (Enterprise+)
- Resolve capacity conflicts (Enterprise+)
- Team capacity report (Enterprise+)
- Work requests (Enterprise+)
- Workspace templates (Enterprise+)
- Workspaces and workspace lines
- Workspace types
- Differences between workspace types
- Explore a product workspace in your account
- Explore an IT workspace in your account
- Explore a project workspace in your account
- Explore a services workspace in your account
- Explore a business operations workspace in your account
- Explore a marketing workspace in your account
- Create a single-workspace hierarchy
- Create a multi-workspace hierarchy
- Create a portfolio hierarchy
- Workspace templates (Enterprise+)
- Archive or delete a workspace or workspace line
- How to define your product workspace
- Move workspaces to a new workspace line
- Duplicate workspace and workspace line prefix error
- Introduction to strategy
- Vision
- Strategic models
- Strategic models: Custom templates
- Strategic models: Aha! business model canvas
- Strategic models: Lean canvas
- Strategic models: SWOT analysis
- Strategic models: Segment profile
- Strategic models: 10Ps marketing matrix
- Positioning
- Creative briefs
- Personas
- Competitors
- Competitor threat scorecards
- Goals
- Link goals to other record types
- Initiatives
- Initiatives prioritization page
- Prioritize and track strategic initiatives
- Link initiatives to other record types
- Getting started with capacity planning (Enterprise+)
- Individual capacity planning
- Configure team capacity planning (Enterprise+)
- Estimate work for capacity planning (Enterprise+)
- Individuals capacity report
- Team capacity report (Enterprise+)
- Resolve capacity conflicts (Enterprise+)
- Troubleshoot missing records on the team capacity report (Enterprise+)
- Introduction to releases
- Release dependencies
- Release templates
- Release retrospective report
- Calendars
- Parking lots
- How the release start date is determined
- Move records from one workspace to another
- Portfolio releases
- Roll-up releases
- Release dates and feature capacity
- Draft release notes with AI
- Create a release
- Add features, phases, and milestones to a release
- Calculate release and release phase dates
- Customize the Gantt view
- Group features by epic on a Gantt chart
- Release and epic view options
- Track Gantt chart change history
- Copy an existing release
- Complete a release
- Share a release