Tracking relationships between work items is critical to successful project management. Regardless of your team's size or project's complexity, you will come across portions of work that depend on one another. It can be very useful to create links between those records. These links create a system for tracking and managing cross-functional dependencies, helping you improve coordination, mitigate risk, and deliver successful projects on time.
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Create dependencies
You can create dependency links between the following record types in Aha! Teamwork:
Parking lots
Epics
Features/Activities
Requirements
Documents
After you create a dependency between two records, they will be linked. You can view their relationship on both records' Related tabs anywhere you can open those records in Aha! Teamwork.
From work records
To create a dependency, link a record:
Open the record and access its Related tab.
Click + Add next to Linked records.
In the Relates to dropdown, choose Depends on or Is a dependency of.
Select a record type from the dropdown and search for the record you want to link. Then, click Create link.
From whiteboards
If you are working with Aha! records on a whiteboard, you can create dependency links between two records without leaving your whiteboard.
Draw a line and connect its ends to the two records you want to link.
On the connector's toolbar, select the Create dependency option.
Choose Depends on or Is a dependency of from the dropdown.
Click Create dependency.
Visualize dependencies
Once you link one or more records together, you can visualize them.
On the Related tab of your records, click Visualize. You will see an interactive dependency map that allows you to click on any of the linked records and expand or collapse the dependencies of records linked to yours.
Report on dependencies
Create a list report that includes key details about dependent work items. Add the Record links field as a column in your report to see which records have dependency relationships with other records in your account.