airfocus

Überragende Priority Matrix und außergewöhnlicher Support

Vorteile:

Airfocus hebt sich besonders durch die sehr ausgereifte UI von seinen Wettbewerbern ab. Nützlich ist die Priority Matrix, die oft interessante Erkenntnisse liefert. Im Alltag nutzen wir überwiegend die Timeline-Funktion, die viele Gliederungsoptionen bietet. Hervorzuheben ist der überragende Support, der den Namen wirklich verdient.

Nachteile:

Wünschenswert wären Check- bzw. To-Do-Listen innerhalb von Items.

Super handy tool with great support!

Kommentare: My experience with Airfocus has been highly positive. The platform's simplicity has improved our roadmap management and reduced the learning curve for our team. The transparency it provides has enhanced communication internally and externally, aiding collaboration and stakeholder alignment. The exceptional support from the Airfocus team has been instrumental in resolving queries promptly. While no tool is without minor challenges, Airfocus's benefits in terms of simplicity, efficient management, transparency, and reliable support have far outweighed any drawbacks, making it an indispensable asset to our project prioritization and management endeavors.

Vorteile:

As a Product Director, I've found Airfocus to be a game-changer for our team's prioritization and roadmap planning. The priority scoring system has been incredibly impactful, helping us identify high-value tasks aligned with our strategic goals. The ability to create customizable roadmaps has enhanced our communication with both internal teams and stakeholders, showcasing our plans visually. Integration with Jira speed up our workflow. Collaboration features enabled easy feedback collection. Additionally, we have great support from our Customer Success Manager, who proactively helps us achieve success with Airfocus.

Nachteile:

Like every platform, Airfocus contains some limitations, but they are not very troublesome, and Support helps prepare the workaround if they occur.

Good product to involve multiple stakeholders

Kommentare: I am very happy for having selected that product, which changed completely the prioritization approach in my company.
I work with 20 countries (international product) and I was looking for a nice & intuitive tool that would help me collect the business value input from all of them.
I can very easily build the "Roadmap" using the priority score calculated in the system, which makes it transparent to everyone.

Vorteile:

- Priority poker are easy to use and very powerful to make people involved in the priorization process - Item mngt is intuitive (with a very nice filtering capability, thanks for that!) - talking with the support team is easy and productive - new features are released frequently improving the overall experience

Nachteile:

- Paying a full "contributor" fee for inviting my local product users to organize one priority poker every 3 months is expensive...

Gets the job done

Vorteile:

It is easy and straight forward to use. It will allow you to quickly create a board or roadmap without too many clicks.

Nachteile:

When is time to jump into details or dependencies, splitting task and follow all the details in the same board/roadmap it gets complicated.

Great for high level planning

Kommentare: We use it weekly for pipeline planning and for some roadmaps

Vorteile:

It provides a good high-level planning tool with some good visualisation to look at your pipeline in different ways.

Nachteile:

Editor accounts are expensive. So your whole team can't fully collaborate on it.

A great help for prioritizing your development roadmap

Kommentare: Our overall experience has been a fairly good one. Our team was pretty excited to see the voting feature and the chart view. We thought it was helpful. Like I mentioned above, I believe it took me a little too much digging to figure out what to do after signing up.

Vorteile:

The items and chart sections are my most frequently visited sections. I use the items view to see the prioritized list of projects and their scores and the chart view has been helpful to visualize and highlight the quick win projects. Your integration with Asana (and other project management platforms) is brilliant. It helped us get our data in quickly which helps our adoption rate of your product, and it helps us be efficient because we don't have to update information in multiple spots

Nachteile:

I think educating your customers could be improved. You may have a lot of helpful content, but it wasn't at the forefront of my onboarding experience. For our business we use ActiveCampaign for our email automations and we setup an "onboarding sequence" that gives our users a nugget of help each day for the first 7 days (during their trial) to educate them on how to setup their websites with us. Those emails have a video tutorial for each feature which seems to really help. We've learned that the more information the user inputs into our system, the more likely they are to continue using it, which reduces our churn greatly. It seems you have a great product but I would really like to understand it more so I get the value out of it.

Good software, lacks some time planning features

Kommentare: It was really good for me to organize our team ideas and tasks. I used it to get an overview, but my main task was to organize nut just the priority but also make a time planning. The time planning failed for me because the timeline features did not match my expectations. Overall it is a good planning tool for me, but I only used it one time to organize our staff and then I exported it to make time planning in other tools. I would definitely recommend this tool to other product teams when it comes to prioritization and organization, but the time planning features need a little bit more features.

Vorteile:

It is easy to use and manage your ideas/tasks. The categorization of ideas and value algorithms can be adjusted very easy, this gives the user maximum flexibility. Prioritization planning works really good.

Nachteile:

The timeline usability was bad, setting up lots of tasks/ideas was really pain. What I was missing mostly was the ability to relate ideas/tasks to milestones. You can set milestones in time, but you can not assign ideas to milestones.

Such a complete product

Vorteile:

The design is really user-friendly. Even if there are lots of features and information, we can easily find what we're looking for. I also really appreciated the chart view (which is my preferred feature) and the priority poker.

Nachteile:

I cannot manage to find a notification system, as we have the ability to comment and interact with people. Moreover, it would be great to have more dependencies options between tasks. Currently we just have the choice between "This item blocks..." and "This item is blocked by...". Could be cool to have dependencies like "Duplicates...", "Caused by...", "Fixes..." etc. Finally, I think that the scoring set-up is a little bit complex, because too complete. According to me, there are too many options. And the ability to set up the importance and weight of every notation would only be a powerful point if properly configured (which can be complicated at a first glance).

Good product

Kommentare: It's a good product, looking forward to filling out more of the fields to experience the full extent of the product.

Vorteile:

Easy to get started with listing and sorting items. Good and extensive variety of views available that you can toggle between

Nachteile:

Drag and drop feature not available to drag items between objectives. A bit overwhelming to begin with as there are so many options and fields

An exceptional decision making tool

Kommentare: Decision making is super complex in our organizations. Airfocus makes it easier to align to our strategic priorities. I can see this being used as a feature level for releases too. An excellent platform for cross party alignment.

Vorteile:

There are many roadmapping tools out there. I've tried them all. However none allowed me to prioritize with ease and display important initiatives in a visual & decisive manner such as Airfocus. The options to customize & visualize priorities are world class!

Nachteile:

Perhaps the timeline view can become more visually appealing. It lacks some of the UI features that other tools may have.

Airfocus brought much-needed objectivity in how we prioritize our projects

Vorteile:

Airfocus is magic, because it allowed my growth team to not work on the latest, shiniest idea. It allowed me to get my team to think more objectively about what projects will actually make the most impact.

Nachteile:

I think onboarding could be a lot easier so I don't have to spend much time walking folks through how to use it.

Airfocus is a completely customizable product with great customer support

Kommentare: Overwhelmed in the beginning because of the many different options and opportunities but received great support 24/7 with really skilled CSM. Also got our specific hierarchy problem solved which no other vendor could offer.

Vorteile:

You can build so many individual workflows and customize it according to your needs

Nachteile:

Limitations of the mirror app, that you can not integrate if, then options for customized fields and that you can not customize the rules and calculation within one factor for the priority score.

Intuitive Product Roadmapping

Kommentare: Excellent.

Vorteile:

Airfocus is so easy to get stared with, the software is simple to use and the setup guides are really good. I really love the roadmapping capabilities of Airfocus, the ability to build powerful portfolio views and align initiatives to my strategy is so important.

Nachteile:

Integrations are limited (unless you use Zapier, but then you're building in external dependencies). MS Teams native integration would be good to see. Slack is there already but if you're a Microsoft centric business you'll find it less simple.

Great for managing inputs from multiple stakeholders

Kommentare: Excellent

Vorteile:

Really appreciate how easy it is use for transparent prioritization of features among multiple stakeholders. Eliminates confusion and concerns about what we're going to build next.

Nachteile:

Would like a little more flexibility with formatting the columns, but overall, it's quite easy to use

Product Management Software easy to use

Kommentare: Great product and great support team.

Vorteile:

I like the different views provided by the software and the the new "portal" feature to present the public roadmap is really great!

Nachteile:

Nice features like the "priority poker" are only available in the more expensive tiers.

Lightweight tool that does the job

Vorteile:

Easy to setup to mirror our current manual / ad hoc process, but provides a lot of time saving functionality. Does not feel bloated like some other product planning software that tries to do everything.

Nachteile:

We have 20-30 features in progress at any point in time. It can be difficult to see this on the roadmap or the timeline view. Needs a "dense display" or the ability to "zoom out' to see the overall progress.

1 month in review

Kommentare: Pretty happy, AirFocus helped us reduce the time we have to invest in planning and grooming our roadmap. We're still deploying workspaces for Marketing and IT Operations, so will challenge the overall experience we had in creating the workspace for Product.

Vorteile:

How easy it was to integrate to Jira and Trello and other existing tools. The priority poker feature to simplify scoring and prioritization. And the timeline management section.

Nachteile:

Can't have an item with two integrations (i.e. a Jira ticket and a Trello card) JQL queries don't work exactly as JIRA's. Most templates change in the values used for scoring, but not in suggesting structures or organizations. Can't filter or search by colors.

I have used airfocus since beta launch

Vorteile:

The results are very well in line with what I think is relevant for a successful roadmap. It also uses well know blueprints, which makes it really easy to understand for people with business backgrounds.

Nachteile:

Its a little hard in the beginning and you have to dig in at least 15 minutes to get some valid results.

Quick and handy tool

Vorteile:

fast and easy to deploy. simple intuitive user interface

Nachteile:

licenses are pricy. Would love to see more tiering in the licencing

Must-have tool for product teams

Kommentare: Helps to visualize our goals

Vorteile:

I like that our product teams has all data in one tool. Import from Jira is done with a few clicks.

Nachteile:

Setting up the Jira itegration for the first time is a bit tricky. You need Jira admin status for that.

Product Roadmapping with AirFocus

Kommentare: Overall we have really taken to AirFocus as a company and are using it across our organization's functions. The ease of use, nice UI, and ability to rank features is what makes it most impactful for us.

Vorteile:

I like how this software is simple to use for Product Roadmapping - my main use case as Chief Product Officer. One feature that really stands out for me with AirFocus is the ability to define a weighting scale and weight your features. The view that shows you most important to least important features is very helpful in making decisions on what to prioritize on your roadmap.

Nachteile:

I'd like to see more fine grained user controls (along with more user tracking of who makes what changes on the roadmap). There have been a few instances where other users changed my roadmap (we also use it for business/tech roadmapping) and it wasn't easy to tell what was changed.

Helps keep us on track

Kommentare: Very happy with the overall experience I had with Airfocus.

Vorteile:

In a world where products are becoming more and more user-centric, Airfocus gives your team the ability to focus on what really matters. While there exists many other products that can help with planning the product feature rollouts, none actually gives you the power that Airfocus does. Their scoring system is very intuitive and can help you prioritize the updates/features based on a number of factors.

Nachteile:

A bit of a steep learning curve as the use case changes with different user personas.

Tool I have been looking for

Kommentare: Great integrations with Jira, which saves us tons of time.

Vorteile:

Easy to use tool for product teams, no special assistance required.

Nachteile:

There is no activity stream. I hope they implement it soon.

Great at what it does

Kommentare: A simple, yet powerful, tool to use as a roadmap that can be published to stakeholders as needed.

Vorteile:

The detailed and configurable initiative scoring is exactly what we needed to evaluate future projects. The priority poker tool they have created is also an amazing way to unearth really productive conversations with all of our seniors.

Nachteile:

I had a few things, but then they released an update and all of my concerns were addressed. It's like they were listening! I would like to maybe see some deeper integration of OKRs or other ways to communicate and do a basic tracking of progress towards annual objectives.

Not expensive and sleek

Vorteile:

- Has jira integration! - Has the bubble charts for drivers (rating system) - not expensive

Nachteile:

- doesn't have open voting for team/customers.