How to run a 1-week trial with your dev team

Aha! Develop

We know you are busy — and you likely use some type of issue tracking tool already. We created this guide to connect you with the best features of Aha! Develop in one week, so you can decide quickly if Aha! Develop is a good fit for your team.

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Get started

Rally your team and commit to trying a small project or short sprint in Aha! Develop. The trial gives you everything you need in an agile development tool, and you can customize it further with extensions, such as Github, planning poker, or a dev tool importer.

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Create a proof of concept using demo data

Use the Aha! AI assistant to:

Trial Aha! Develop with my team's data

Bring in a subset of your team's data, either singly or in bulk, using record imports and importers.


You can also contact us for a quick demo. We do not have salespeople at Aha! — just product experts who respond quickly.

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Set up your environment

Aha! Develop works great out of the box. But you can also customize it to align with how your development team already works.

Detailed view of user story in Aha! Develop showing GitHub and Figma extensions.

Did you just add Aha! Develop to an existing Aha! account? Great! First create an Aha! Develop team. To do this, navigate to User menu -> Settings -> Account -> Customizations -> Teams and click Add team.


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Customize the terminology to match my team's preferred nomenclature

  • Navigate to User menu -> Settings → Teams → Terminology

Customize the statuses on the workflow board to match my team's workflow

  • Navigate to Work → Team board

Link my Aha! Develop trial with my GitHub repository

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Invite your team

Have more fun with your trial — explore it with a couple teammates.

  1. Select a team to invite your teammates to.

  2. Click Add team member to invite your teammates.

  3. Consider giving them admin user permissions so that they can fully experience the trial. Once added, click on a team member's name to give them admin user permissions.

  4. Set up a team meeting to kick off your work together in Aha! Develop.

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Start a small project

Now that you have invited your team, it is time to pick what the team will work on. Here are some ideas:

  • Focus on a short project that you can complete in a week.

  • Pull in a couple features that you want to assign in your next sprint.

  • Start the first week of a new project.


I want to...

...Do this

Create a proof of concept using demo data

Use the Aha! AI assistant to:

Trial Aha! Develop with my team's data

Bring in a subset of your team's data, either singly or in bulk, using record imports and importers.

Use AI to refine my backlog

Use the Aha! AI assistant to:

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Explore Aha! Develop

Time to get to work!

Do you plan in sprints?

Sprint planning board in Aha! Develop showing a sprint in progress.


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Set my sprints' default capacity planning units (story points or time).

  • Navigate to User menu -> Settings → Teams → Capacity planning

Plan my sprint

  • Navigate to Plan -> Sprint planning

  • Assign work to the team, along with estimates and priorities

Work the sprint

  • Start the sprint from Plan -> Sprint planning.

  • Move to the workflow board in Work -> Team board to get started. You can group records on this board by a variety of standard and custom fields, and customize the cards to see the most important details first.

Hold a retrospective


Do you follow kanban?

Team kanban board in Aha! Develop showing work in progress.

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Work the board

  • Navigate to the workflow board in Work -> Team board to get started. You can group records on this board by a variety of standard and custom fields, and customize the cards to see the most important details first.


Do you follow SAFe®?

Program board in Aha! Develop showing dependency lines between records.

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Model my team hierarchy after the ART

  • Organize your teams into team lines. From a team line, you can visualize aggregate data in reports for any team(s) in your line.

Start PI planning

Model my entire Aha! account to follow SAFe

Need some help or have a feature request? Feel free to reach out to our team of product experts and developers. We would love to help out.

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Make a decision

How did it go?

  1. Great! Move your next sprint or project into Aha! Develop and continue your trial. Check out this article on how to import all of your data.

  2. It's not what we need right now. No worries! We understand that Aha! Develop might not be a fit for you right now. As your needs change, we would be happy to help your team quickly get up to speed.

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