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Created by Ben Gidley
Created on Mar 10, 2017

Reporting on cross product line initiatives

Our company has many product managers and product lines in AHA and sometimes we'll have one product line depend on a delivery for another. AHA lets us model this using initiatives, but it doesn't let us report on it.

The set up we have is

Root

  • Groups of product lines reflecting our org
    • Product A (Managed by me)
    • More products
  • Different group of product lines reflecting our org
    • Product B (Managed by someone else
    • More products

In product line A - I'll start planning an initiative, and that will depend on some features already on Product B's roadmap and scheduled in the future. I can already in AHA mark them as related to my initiative.

Then at our 'big' prioritization discussion I want to pull out of AHA a list of all such cross product line features, but there isn't a way to do it. (I've asked support). The only solution they could suggest was to promote the initiative to root level - but that is impractical as we'd end up with all our product lines initiatives at root in a big & messy pile, breaking the reports we use most (which is strategy roadmaps).

The data for such a report is in your system and is accessible via the AHA API - so as a work around I've written a simple script to pull it from your API, but ideally I'd like this report in a notebook like everything else. That workflow is problematic - as many people using AHA won't be able to use the script.

  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    May 31, 2018

    We have launched a new Dependency report that allows you to see how work is related by visualizing product relationships across your account in a single, customizable view.

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