Portfolio roadmap planning — product lines and initiatives
Aha! now enables you to manage your product portfolio — no matter how many businesses, divisions, or product lines you have. We make it easy to visualize the complex…
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The Alpha Product Manager
Alpha product managers have a few traits in common. Discover the top 3 ways alpha product managers outshine most leaders.
How I Was Unbanned from Hacker News
Somehow I managed to become what I thought was hellbanned from Hacker News. I was ready to apologize for sinning — to bow down to the Internet gods of geeky and fresh…
VCs Will Not Save You from the Startup Death Spiral
Your startup is in a death spiral if the following is true — your team is making more and more radical bets, despite fewer and fewer indicators that your efforts will be…
Why Does DevOps Think They Are the TSA?
So you are the Operations Manager — gatekeeper of everything good — and the go-to-guy for everything infrastructure. You help keep engineering from releasing the…
Publish A Beautiful Product Roadmap
How often do you get asked for your product roadmap? Or, questioned about when feature X is going to be delivered? Sharing your product roadmap with the sales team,…
GitHub for Code and Aha! for Product Roadmaps
Do you need an easier way to tie code changes to the product roadmap that drove them? If yes, we just made that a lot easier through an integration with GitHub. While…
Scrum — Your False God of Innovation
Scrum will make a zealot out of you. And a growing number of product managers and engineering teams are fervent disciples. The problem is that it does not lead to…
Kanban Cannot Save You From The Engineering Death Spiral
Your company is in an engineering death spiral if the following is true — your team is becomes less and less efficient, despite more and more measures being implemented…
The Lean(est) Startup
I like the Lean Startup methodology, but I am not sure it goes far enough. I am now recommending a disruptive new approach which I have aptly named the Waif Startup. It’s…
