Allow a product manager to create multiple scenarios of product roadmap to help decision process of what to build when as priorities change

This feature was actually what brought me to Aha! so that we could see what our product release plan would look like against resources before we create delivery tickets in Jira, as well as see the impact of additional or fewer team resources by running different scenarios.

Hi everyone,

I think that with a little creativity with existing functionalities of aha.io, it is quite possible.

What I recommend

1. Create alternate reality product(s) based on original product

2. Clone releases from original product to alternate reality product(s)

3. Utilize aha reporting to showcase alernate realities and original product comparison (e.g. pivot report)

I believe this way you could very well end up with alternate realities with full aha functionality.

As an addon - I would create master features to group features from different realities so that they can compete in between each other (utilize scorecards to assign score to reality versions and compare on pivot reports, what is more likely to be valuable).

I think this is an interesting idea and if you contact me (daniel.pokryvka@gmail.com or shiftup slack), we can jump on call, share screen and I will create prototype with you, e.g. in your aha.

We do our scenario's outside of Aha, unfortunately. Snapshot's in presentation mode doesn't cut it - so having the ability to almost create a ghost planning board that can have snapshots taken and then compared to actuals would be great.

I need this too. I had tried out Portfolio for JIRA and rejected it for heaps of reasons. But liked that I could create different outcomes with different teams, priorities, roadmaps, etc. I need this right now where I'm working because stakeholders have dreams that are larger than staffing. I'd like to play out a scenario and show them how many teams we'd need to build X in Y amount of time. Thank you.

One way that we’d like to do what-if analysis is by changing the scoring weights. What if we really wanted to double down on “Ease of Use”? How would that change the scores? What are the key differences? Does that allow different resource usage/timing? What’s the tradeoff?

My use case for this would be: examine what happens to road map under different resourcing scenarios. 

In Addition to this, when two companies Merge you need to have two versions of the roadmap for some time until the merger completes and this will be useful for creating specific roadmap for Customer Type A and Customer Type B

Hello A-ha team. Just wondering if you have an ETA for when this feature might be implemented? This feature would be a valuable asset for our organization.

I'd like "What If" scenarios too. I've been years looking for such a planning tool - Paul H

This is an amazing idea.  My CEO recently asked me to show a roadmap for scenario A and another one for scenario B.  We have a big decision to make that will potentially impact our entire roadmap and I've been struggling to use Aha for this.

I tried getting clever with tags, tried creating new product lines, but every way I tried was clunky, time consuming, and didn't have great polish to share with a CEO.

Forking an existing roadmap into scenario planning would be amazing.

I was a little disappointed that with all the wonderful tooling, that I was not able to test out scenarios.