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 |
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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.
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.
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 |
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Customize the statuses on the workflow board to match my team's workflow |
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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.
Click Add team member to invite your teammates.
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.
Set up a team meeting to kick off your work together in Aha! Develop.
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... |
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Create a proof of concept using demo data |
Use the Aha! AI assistant to:
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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?
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Set my sprints' default capacity planning units (story points or time). |
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Plan my sprint |
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Work the sprint |
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Hold a retrospective |
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Do you follow kanban?
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Work the board |
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Do you follow SAFe®?
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Model my team hierarchy after the ART |
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Start PI planning |
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Model my entire Aha! account to follow SAFe |
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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.
Make a decision
How did it go?
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.
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.