Aha! Roadmaps | Introduction to releases

"Are we on track?" It is a simple question that most product managers hear daily. But often there is no simple answer. Progress updates for a cross-functional release might require multiple meetings, reports, emails, and manual data analyses before you can arrive at a confident answer.

You want to deliver functionality that your customers love. Releases are containers for lovable work — the result of careful strategic planning, idea management, and ambitious collaboration with highly talented teammates. Release management makes sure you can launch that lovable work on time, every time.

In this article, we will walk through how you can create, manage, and analyze a release in Aha! Roadmaps.

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• Create a release

• Create release templates

• Set a default roadmap

• Organize customer research

• Add features, phases, and milestones

• Calculate release and release phase dates

• Create dependencies between features, phases, and milestones

• Customize the Gantt view

• Visualize cross-team dependencies

• Group features by epic on the Gantt chart

• Release and epic view options

• Track change history

• Copy an existing release

• Complete a release

• View the release retrospective report

• Share a release