Epics

What is the challenge? Product Leaders cannot create a new Initiative (we refer to them as Epics at Thrivent which is one product line lower) directly from an existing initiative in Aha. You can only add existing initiatives. This is challenging f...

Many companies use milestones to represent when a set of work items is to be delivered and these are only loosely coupled or decoupled from longer-term planning time boxes, which in Aha are best represented by Releases (e.g. quarterly time boxes)....

What is the challenge? Some views offer the possibility to sort Initiatives/epics by "Rank", however, the Ranking from the prioritization view is not the same as the "Rank". What is the impact? We cannot use the sorting by "Rank" because t...

In my Aha boards, I have epics/projects that have "related" features/activities. One thing I have found is that it can be difficult to see details for the lower level features/activities without going into the ticket itself. Under activities in th...

What is the challenge? In the Epic detail view, I see all the related Features. I am not able to rearrange the order of these. (However, I AM able to rearrange the order of Requirements on a Feature). What is the impact? I don't have a way of sett...

Who would benefit? Product owners What impact would it make? Less manual work How should it work? Link epic to an initiative Pop up to link the features as well (cfr when you move an epic to another release) Without use of automation rule (no ente...

What is the challenge? We prioritise features, not epics. However, it's still useful for many reasons (e.g. reporting) to have a prioritised view of epics as well. There's no way that we will spend the time to score epics separately though. What i...

What is the challenge? Change in Epic status not reflected in associated Features What is the impact? Lack of status sync between Epic & Features Describe your idea We leverage Epic as the primary record for approval workflow. I would like to ...

What is the challenge? Users need to click into a release to see which workspace an epic's sits in. This is not very intuitive for new users and adds an unnecessary extra click to view a critical piece of information. Release has many definitions ...

What is the challenge? Having a custom table for epics and features which is not just the analytics list in a different place What is the impact? There is no list view with an epics/feature selector like there is for all the other views. C...