Aha! Develop | Aha! Roadmaps connection capacity planning

Product and engineering teams both have input into a work item's estimated effort. Whether you estimate capacity in points or time, this is a critical part of any collaborative workflow. The two connected products overlap in two areas: estimates and capacity planning.

In connected accounts, the Estimate field is shared between Aha! Roadmaps and Aha! Develop. Even though a record might exist in two places at once — in a product team's release and in a development team's sprint, for example — the Estimate is the same, and both teams see any update to the estimate.

In Aha! Roadmaps, the Estimate field contributes to:

• Release capacity planning

• The capacity report for individuals

In Aha! Develop, the Estimate field contributes to:

• Sprint capacity planning

Releases do exist in Aha! Develop, but the majority of customers in connected accounts will not benefit from using them. We recommend that you keep using releases in Aha! Roadmaps as containers for work centered around a single release date, and track your own Aha! Develop work in sprints or workflow boards.

If you are an Enterprise+ customer, you have access to capacity planning for teams, and you can estimate the resources you will need at the team level to complete the work that contributes to your strategic goals. You can populate capacity planning teams with simple numbers, virtual users, or Aha! Roadmaps users — but if the real world team's headcount changes, you need to update the capacity planning team to match.

For connected accounts, you can link a capacity planning team to an actual Aha! Develop team. As members are added and removed in Aha! Develop, your capacity team will update accordingly — so you always have an accurate picture of your engineering teams' capacity.

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