Lucid + airfocus: Product management from strategy to execution

Today’s product managers face many complex challenges and few choices for apps that help navigate those challenges effectively. 

That’s why Lucid has acquired airfocus, the AI-powered product management and roadmapping platform. Together, the pair provides product leaders with a solution that fuses flexibility with structure so they can take their products from strategy to ideation to execution successfully.  

Challenges of product management

Product managers have to be organized and transparent while also being creative and collaborative. They’re key communicators who must keep stakeholders—from C-level executives to other departments—informed and aligned. Product management is a balance between creative ideation and structured planning, but due to a high level of complexity and app-switching, providing transparency and clarity to the right people can be difficult—and ultimately, alignment suffers. 

Then there are the daily tasks product managers have to figure out. How do product teams capture and give weight to customer feedback? How do they create robust roadmaps that can be adjusted as priorities or opportunities change? How do they convert their plans into epics and tasks that ladder up to views that leaders and executives can easily digest? Many product managers use non-purpose-built tools like spreadsheets and presentation tools to complete this work, but there’s a better way: using Lucid and airfocus together!

About airfocus

airfocus is the AI-powered product management and roadmapping platform that keeps teams and stakeholders aligned—no matter how differently they operate.

With airfocus, you can bring all your roadmaps, prioritization frameworks, and customer insights under one roof, even if your teams have different ways of working. Share dynamic, interactive roadmaps tailored to every stakeholder, connect customer feedback directly to prioritization decisions, and ensure full visibility from company OKRs to individual user stories. 

airfocus includes capabilities for:

• Strategic roadmap planning

• Portfolio management            

• Feedback collection and integration

• Capacity planning

About Lucidspark

Lucidspark, part of the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite, is the virtual whiteboard where ideas ignite. 

Host dynamic, brainstorming sessions on an intuitive canvas. Collect ideas, organize thoughts, and pick the best course of action to keep your project moving forward. Then take the next step and turn insights into action.

Lucidspark is built for: 

• Brainstorming and ideation

• Real-time and asynchronous collaboration

• Strategic planning

• Facilitating meetings

Why Lucid and airfocus are better together 

Together, Lucid and airfocus offer the perfect blend of flexibility and structure to support product leaders in going from strategy to ideation to reality. Using the two solutions, product teams can collaborate and brainstorm intuitively and quickly tie visual results with their single source of truth for epics, roadmaps, OKRs, and product insights—all while keeping stakeholders informed!

Lucid and airfocus can help you:

• Accelerate collaboration across departments and teams: Gather input from cross-functional teams on an infinite canvas to ensure all voices are heard.

• Drive alignment on development priorities and timelines: Access additional prioritization tools through Lucid to evaluate customer feedback, data, and stakeholder input.

• Turn unstructured ideas into structured plans: Take your best ideas from a Lucidspark brainstorming session and add them as actionable items and objectives in airfocus.

• Provide a single source of truth for entire product teams: Centralize the most up-to-date roadmaps, user journey maps, OKRs, product insights, and other key documentation.

Let’s take a look at more specifically what the pairing of Lucid and airfocus might look like for a product team.

Imagine you and your team are planning how you’re going to contribute to a company-level objective of becoming a product leader in your category. 

First, you pull insights such as feature requests, pain points, and customer suggestions from the airfocus customer feedback portal. Using those insights, you set up a brainstorming session in Lucidspark.

Your team considers the customer feedback and adds ideas for potential team-level objectives to sticky notes in Lucidspark. Then, using Lucidspark’s sorting and AI tools, you summarize the ideas and arrange them by themes. Next, your team can use Visual Activities in Lucidspark to collect feedback, prioritize ideas, and decide on a path forward. 

This is where airfocus comes back in. You can add the team-level objective you decided on into airfocus as a formal objective. With the objective set, your team uses airfocus to build out roadmaps and map dependencies with other teams. You’ll see your objective alongside larger initiatives, roadmaps, backlogs, and team workflows.

Once you’ve built out the plans for your initiative and you’ve started delivering value, you can use integrations between Lucid, airfocus, and Jira or Azure DevOps to monitor and report on progress. Any changes made in Lucid will automatically update in airfocus, Jira, and ADO.

And that’s only one use case that’s possible with Lucid and airfocus. Our integrations enhance the experience across both products, making a lot of things possible. 

In addition to the Lucid Cards for airfocus integration we just described in the previous example, you can use the the airfocus embed integration to embed Lucid documents in airfocus views and items to provide key context and bring clarity to your product management.   

Be sure to stay tuned because we’re going to be building more connection points between Lucid and airfocus so that you can streamline the way your teams prioritize, plan, and execute on company initiatives and product strategies. 

Note: airfocus is a separate entity from Lucid subject to its own terms of service, data processing and privacy practices, and security policies and is currently only available in English.