The Features->Roadmap view is great, when you configure it correctly.
It remembers the releases I filtered on last time I entered it, but that means the default view gets stale as soon as I add new releases. This view would be a more powerful and dynamic view if the default behavior was to show all active/future releases for the given context (Product Line or Product). This is the behavior in the Portfolio view (though that view is significantly less customizable and informative than the Feature-Roadmap view.
Because the PMs across multiple teams each need to remember to add a release both in their Features board and in the related report for each of our published roadmaps, we are finding it incredibly burdensome and manual to keep all of our stakeholders on the same page about what's happening when. (One of the primary reasons we purchased Aha). This is a "must have" for us.
Yes yes yes! It's frustrating to have to go in weekly and check the boxes next to all the releases added within the last week in order to get them into the feature roadmap.
Hello!
My team would really like this feature as well in our Notebook. We have a Roadmap Notebook that we circulate internally, and we want it to be as transparent as possible what releases are upcoming and what their features are. We circulate once a week, and it becomes tedious to have to go through the filters in each Notebook page to check the box to make the release appear on the Notebook.
We would like all Releases and features to automatically appear in the Notebook. I understand that some groups wouldn't want all releases added to be automatically shown, but we think it should be a customizable feature, a box you can check that says, "Make all Releases visible," or something similar.
I get tripped up on this too. I'd love for the report to always show all releases by default (which it does when you initially create it).
This should be a setting at Customize Releases, I guess.
And as mentioned by Raj Rajamani, there should be also a setting "hide releases without visible features".
A closely related improvement would be to organize the Choose Releases dropdown on this Features Roadmap view hierarchically, rather than alphabetically. That seems like it would be the easiest way for us to switch between views for different product lines.
I've 24 releases in a product line with 6 products. So, I prefer selecting all releases in the roadmap view. But, the roadmap should not show any release that doesn't have an associated feature.