There’s a new tool available for software development projects. Aha! is designed to help define a product roadmap and enable collaboration to keep the project humming along smoothly.

It’s been a long time since I’ve been involved on the project management side of the fence. I always used—and still have—Microsoft Project. The thing with Microsoft Project, though, is that it’s a complex and cumbersome tool, and it requires a fair amount of knowledge and experience to use properly.

Also, Project doesn’t easily allow a project manager to illustrate a roadmap and connect the dots between achieving the strategic vision and the milestones of the project. Lastly, Project lets project managers share information, but it doesn’t facilitate true team collaboration.

I walked through a demo of Aha! with co-founder and CEO Brian de Haaff. I was impressed with the general layout and simplicity of it. Compared to Microsoft Project, Aha! has a much cleaner, more intuitive layout. Brian showed me how dragging requirements around to re-order them in one view automatically updates their position and priority in other views as well.

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