What is the challenge? |
Teams often track both requirements and to-dos within a feature or epic, but the current progress calculation options force you to choose between tracking one or the other. If you select "Calculate from requirements completed," your to-dos are ignored in the progress calculation, and vice versa. This creates an incomplete picture of actual work completion, especially when teams use requirements for defining "what" needs to be built and to-dos for tracking "how" it gets done. Users must either manually adjust progress or accept that their progress metrics don't reflect all the work being tracked. |
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What is the impact? |
Inaccurate progress reporting leads to poor visibility into actual feature completion status for stakeholders, portfolio managers, and team members. This can result in missed deadlines, incorrect prioritization decisions, and a lack of confidence in the reporting data. Teams may spend extra time manually updating progress or creating workarounds, reducing the value of using both requirements and to-dos as intended. For organizations that rely on Aha! for roadmap accuracy and status reporting, this limitation undermines trust in automated progress tracking. |
Describe your idea |
Add new progress calculation options that combine requirements and to-dos:
Optionally, allow users to set weighting (e.g., requirements count for 70% of progress, to-dos for 30%) to reflect the relative importance of each work type. This would give teams accurate, automated progress tracking that reflects all the work they're managing in Aha!. |
In the case of an initiative or epic based roadmap, there are several items that contribute towards progress. Currently the progress calculator can be set only between a selection of feature, feature/dependents, features completed, features/dependents completed, to-dos completed, and to-dos/dependents completed. I have to decide from this selection and am currently unable to select all or even more than these options. What I am looking for is a cross-functional evaluation of an epic's status that extends beyond just one lever. So the ask is to set progress based on a combination of features, features and dependents, to-do's, and to do's and dependents completed. This way I might be able to capture cross-functional completeness of the epic.
In ADO, we use Features and below that Product Backlog Items and Bugs and below that Tasks.
In ADO, the features progress can be calculated as "Progress by all Work items", which leads as an example to 68% progress. In Aha! Roadmaps I have at the moment no chance to get these 68% to display.
It's only 26% by
calculate from features
calculate from features and dependents
or 0% by
calculate from features completed
calculate from features and dependents completed
calculate from to-dos completed
calculate from to-dos and dependents completed
please add an option to use "calculate from all work items (or requirements) completed"