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Uncensored advice about product development and building a high-growth software company from Brian de Haaff, co-founder and CEO at Aha!

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Those Pesky Release Notes and Product Management
February 6, 2014
Those Pesky Release Notes and Product Management

Release notes are unglamorous — unless you need to know what was just released. There’s no shame in admitting they they are a pain to write and often get ignored.

Scrum Can Save and Destroy You
February 3, 2014
Scrum Can Save and Destroy You

Scrum can save and destroy you. And sometime it does both in just that order. Only those unaware or unafraid will admit that they are not “agile” converts these days…

Launch Planning and Product Management
January 28, 2014
Launch Planning and Product Management

Great product launches create heroes. And product teams have the best product launches when they have clear goals, deliver the goods on time, and everyone is on the page.…

Product Management — Aha! Keeps the Team Informed
January 20, 2014
Product Management — Aha! Keeps the Team Informed

Products are successful when product teams are efficiently working together. Read about watchers and notifications in Aha! software.

A 90-Day Plan for Recovering Kanban-ers
January 17, 2014
A 90-Day Plan for Recovering Kanban-ers

There is growing unrest. As quickly as lean and ultra-lean approaches to software development have emerged, so has a nasty backlash. We see this daily as we talk with…

The Folly of Inside-Out Product Thinking
January 13, 2014
The Folly of Inside-Out Product Thinking

Have you ever run into this deductive reasoning? A. Customers like our existing products and our company. B. We are building a new product that reflects the priorities of…

Fear is Not What is Holding You Back
January 7, 2014
Fear is Not What is Holding You Back

Do you often wonder why you sacrifice your personal aspirations for what’s comfortable? Have you always wanted to pursue an idea or start that company, but have given up…

We Added Duo Security Two-Factor Authentication Because It Was the Right Thing to Do
January 2, 2014
We Added Duo Security Two-Factor Authentication Because It Was the Right Thing to Do

We added Duo Security two-factor authentication and we feel better that we did. It was the right thing to do and the most convenient way for customers to radically…

Happy New Year — New Controls for Viewing Features and Capacity Planning
December 31, 2013
Happy New Year — New Controls for Viewing Features and Capacity Planning

We just got this one in before the end of the year. It was close — but we slipped it in. And what a year it’s been. We have been humbled by your response to Aha! and the…

Best Product Management Software: New Roadmap Views, Bulk Editing of Features, Jira Integration and More
December 25, 2013
Best Product Management Software: New Roadmap Views, Bulk Editing of Features, Jira Integration and More

We were in a giving mood yesterday and wanted to celebrate the holidays with a last minute gift for all of our great customers. So we boxed together a number of requests…

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