Easy Modularity: The Best Approach to Product Management

There’s no shortage of product management tools. Many of them come with a fixed interface meant to shape your workflow.

Here at airfocus, we think that's a backward approach to building useful PM tools. Instead, we offer a modular solution that gives you the tools you need. 

Here's how easy modularity plays a role in making airfocus great. 

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How airfocus makes modularity easy

Organize your work with workspaces

airfocus's modularity allows you to organize your work into workspaces. A workspace is a screen that focuses on the task or group of items at hand. You can add whatever you want to a workspace and remove anything you don't want. 

This customization makes it easy to establish and focus on your priorities. Distractions are pushed to the side while you focus on the work that matters most to you. 

You can further customize your workspace with different features, custom views, and the information and people you attach to it — giving you a high level of control over the way you or your team work. 

Visualize data with custom views

You can use custom views to visualize your data and control how you display information to your team. 

You can use templates to automatically apply themes to your workspaces, or you can start from scratch and personalize your views from top to bottom. There are several views to choose from in airfocus, each with its strengths. 

Some views are helpful for seeing items in a timeline, while others present tasks as a list of to-dos. There are even views that help you track the performance and progress scores of each of your team members. 

Check out this post to learn more about everything you can do with custom views. 

Build your version of airfocus

With airfocus, you can choose the features you use. That means you can opt to use all of the features that come with airfocus or just a few. You can set up your airfocus with just the blocks and features you actually need and nothing you don’t. 

This means that your version of airfocus will be entirely uncluttered — no feature bloat, no unused services, just a streamlined approach to your product management.

Integrate with the tools you know and love

Of course, no app is an island these days. We know that you're going to pair airfocus with other apps to craft your workflow and organize your whole product strategy. 

With that in mind, we've built several integrations right into airfocus. This allows you to easily make airfocus work with the other apps you already know and love. The integrations that airfocus offers include Jira, Asure DevOps, Intercom, Chrome, Asana, Github, Trello, and more!

Use pre-made templates or create your own

You're no doubt already familiar with templates in other apps. They're a great way to speed up the process of creating workspaces. And if you're not sure how to organize your airfocus experience, they can help you create a framework. 

But, if you don't like the templates included with airfocus, you can easily start from scratch and create your own. We want you to be able to work the way you want!

Create custom fields

In airfocus, fields are used to enter and store information, so they play a big role in the way you use and view your workspace. 

So it's essential to be able to customize and control these fields! You can have as many or as few fields as you like, choose what kind of data they store, and choose how they relate to one another. 

Custom fields are useful for displaying information, and you can use custom fields to transform information — similar to how you can set rules for fields in a spreadsheet.

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The benefits of modularity in a PM tool

When you’re working with agile methodologies, you need a product management tool that adapts as fast as your team can. That’s what modularity in a PM tool can offer. As the world's most flexible product management platform, all of us at airfocus know a few things about how modularity can benefit teams. 

When we built airfocus, we knew we wanted to empower our users by offering a fully customizable tool catering to specific needs and workflows. Here are a couple of examples of how that mindset has helped our users:

Improves efficiency

We’ve all felt frustrated with the tools we have to use daily. Complicated workflows or features simply not working as they should really put a damper on anyone’s day. This is why we’re so passionate about modularity. The tools you use for product management should help you get the best out of your team and make your life as a product manager easier. 

With a modular product management tool, everything you need is right where you need it. There are no hidden features, and there’s no bloat. This helps you quickly build your custom workflow and makes the transition process easier when coming from a different PM platform. 

The modularity within airfocus lets product managers organize their work into workspaces. The workspace is a screen that offers a focused display of the task at hand. The workspace is a blank canvas that lets you add or remove anything you want or don’t. That means you only see what you need in the moment, and distractions are hidden away.

The customization airfocus can offer as a modular product management platform is almost endless. Product managers can access a great range of different features and custom views that give you ultimate control over how you or your team work. 

Improve user experience

The benefits of modular product management software also branches out to your users. With airfocus, our modular platform packs an extra punch that will make engaging and understanding your users simple.

airfocus Portal lets you build a fully branded place where your users can communicate with you about any issues, questions, or suggestions they may have. This then feeds into airfocus Insights, which gathers feedback from any channel into one comprehensive, centralized display. The best part? You get all of that thanks to modularity without switching between different platforms.

Improve decision-making

Decision-making and prioritization can make or break a project. That’s why we make both activities as simple as possible. No decision is the same, meaning product managers must use a rotating series of frameworks to ensure success. 

With our fully customizable workspaces and templates, airfocus makes jumping straight into the decision-making process easy. There’s no need to create a workspace from scratch or sift through features you don’t need to find the one that will work. Combine that with built-in prioritization features like priority ratings and priority poker you’re on your way to a successful product development cycle.

Explore all the ways you can customize airfocus

Now that you know how modularity plays a key role in our approach to product management check out all of the other great features airfocus offers!