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Pros

Valuable for Prioritization and Roadmap Planning: Users find Airfocus to be a valuable tool for prioritization, roadmap planning, and managing stakeholders. Many reviewers have stated that it helps them effectively prioritize tasks and projects, ensuring that the most important initiatives are given proper attention. The ability to create clear roadmaps allows teams to align their efforts and make informed decisions about what features or projects to focus on.

Easy-to-Use Interface: The tool is praised for its easy-to-use interface and clearly structured user interface. Numerous users appreciate how intuitive it is to navigate through Airfocus, allowing them to quickly understand and utilize its features without much effort. This simplicity is particularly helpful for onboarding new team members who can easily familiarize themselves with the software.

Customizable Prioritization Settings: Users appreciate the flexibility to define their own settings for prioritization based on value and cost in Airfocus. Several reviewers have mentioned how they can customize the priority matrix, creating custom weights for items, enabling them to tailor the tool's prioritization system according to their specific needs. This customization feature enhances the usability of Airfocus by adapting it to different workflows and decision-making processes.

airfocus Reviews

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Ready, Set, Roadmap

Rating: 8 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Initially, I stumbled upon airfocus as part of a product team evaluation of a number of different tools designed to make product prioritization and roadmapping a bit easier for our department. We evaluated a number of different SaaS options before settling on airfocus as one of several tools we would use to encourage collaboration not only among the product team but to help better communicate priorities with stakeholders within the company.

Pros

  • Product prioritization was made simple by compiling stakeholder input on projects to determine the proper order to execute differing projects. Priority poker-like features are a huge timesaver.
  • Creating roadmaps could not be easier in airfocus. Creating new projects is intuitive and you can customize settings that allow you to automatically add projects to the overall roadmap. There are a number of choices for the roadmap templates also which is nice depending on individual product managers' needs and expertise.
  • Perhaps the most useful feature(s) of airfocus are the collaboration tools. The ability to build out product roadmaps with the entire team's input saves countless hours of in-person prioritization meetings and has made refinement meetings with engineering team go much more smoothly.

Cons

  • Sharing of finished products (e.g., road maps) via downloading or PDF docs could be a bit less high touch than they currently are. The product works best when all stakeholders have a seat but not all stakeholders (i.e. non-product team members) like to work that way, exporting options for them could be better.
  • Customization (look & feel) options are pretty limited.
  • JIRA integration only works for JIRA in the cloud customers.

Likelihood to Recommend

Airfocus is as well suited for large product teams that have several members working on the same product line as it is for a product team of one. For large teams, the collaboration tools that come in the out-of-the-box solution act as a huge timesaver. Frankly speaking, it will help eliminate a lot of resource-intensive face-to-face meetings. For individual managers, the visualization tools can really help organize disparate ideas into a cohesive product roadmap. One flaw of airfocus is that it fails to live up to its ultimate utility because–like many SaaS products–it is dependent on the entire team, to include all stakeholders, to buy into the solution if it is to be a true one-stop solution for product roadmapping. However, there is no denying it greatly helps in getting teams a little bit closer to the goal of effective collaboration.
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Rob Harol
Sr. Director, Emerging Products in Product Management at PRODEGE, LLC (Internet, 201-500 employees)
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