Configurations
Configurations
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Impulsum works well out-of-the-box, but it shines when you customize it for your specific workflow. Small adjustments = big productivity improvements.
🎯 Configuration Philosophy
Adaptation, not configuration hell
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🎪 Impulsum Principle: We prefer smart defaults that work for 80% of cases, with simple configurations for the remaining 20%.
What you WON’T have to configure:
- ❌ Complex rule engines
- ❌ Dozens of checkboxes
- ❌ Technical integrations details
- ❌ Manual data mapping
What you CAN customize:
- ✅ Your workflow preferences
- ✅ Notification timing and frequency
- ✅ Dashboard layout and metrics priority
- ✅ Team structure and reporting relationships
🎯 Configuration Overview
Main Configuration Sections
👤 Personal Settings
Profile and basic preferences
🎨 Dashboard Customization
Your dashboard, your way
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💡 Image placeholder: Screenshot of dashboard customizer showing widgets being dragged and dropped, with different layouts for different roles.
Layout options
Widget customization
Available widgets (drag & drop):
- 📊 Project Health Cards - Status, progress, risks
- 📈 Velocity Charts - Team performance trends
- 🚨 Alert Summary - Critical issues requiring attention
- 👥 Team Overview - Workload, availability, mood
- ⏰ Upcoming Deadlines - Next 7/14/30 days
- 💰 Budget Tracking - Spend vs allocated
- 🎯 OKR Progress - Quarterly objective tracking
- 📝 Recent Activity - Latest updates across projects
🔔 Notifications & Alerts
Right information, right time, right channel
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🎯 Smart notifications: Impulsum learns your patterns to avoid notification fatigue while ensuring you don’t miss anything critical.
Notification channels
Smart notification rules
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🧠 AI-powered notification intelligence:
- Pattern learning: Notices which alerts you act on vs ignore
- Context awareness: Fewer notifications during busy periods
- Escalation paths: Auto-escalate if no response within timeframe
- Fatigue prevention: Reduces frequency if you’re getting overwhelmed
🏗️ Team & Organization Settings
Configure for effective collaboration
Team structure mapping
Define reporting relationships y collaboration patterns:
- Direct reports: Who reports directly to you
- Cross-functional teams: Teams you collaborate with regularly
- Stakeholders: Who needs updates from your projects
- Escalation paths: Who to notify for different types of issues
Project ownership
Clarify your relationship with each project:
- Project lead: Full ownership y decision authority
- Contributing member: Active contributor pero not lead
- Stakeholder: Interested in updates pero not day-to-day involved
- Observer: Monitoring for awareness only
Permission levels
Set what team members can see y do:
- Full access: See all projects y data you have access to
- Project-specific: Only see assigned projects
- Read-only: Can view but not modify anything
- Custom: Granular permissions per person/project
Communication preferences
How your team likes to work:
- Meeting cadence: Daily, weekly, bi-weekly standups
- Report timing: When team expects updates
- Escalation triggers: What automatically gets elevated
- Decision making: Consensus vs consultative vs directive
🎛️ Advanced Configurations
Power user features
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⚡ Advanced features: These configurations are for experienced users who want to fine-tune specific behaviors.
Custom metrics & KPIs
Workflow automation
Automated actions based on conditions:
- Auto-reassign tickets when someone goes on vacation
- Escalate automatically if blockers aren’t resolved within SLA
- Generate reports weekly for stakeholders without manual work
- Update status pages when deployment milestones are hit
Smart suggestions:
- Recommend optimal sprint capacity based on historical data
- Suggest task assignments based on skills y workload
- Propose timeline adjustments when risks are detected
- Recommend process improvements based on retrospective patterns
🔐 Privacy & Security Settings
Control your data y access
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🛡️ Privacy by design: Impulsum is built with privacy y security as fundamental principles, not afterthoughts.
Data control
🧪 Experimental Features
Bleeding edge capabilities (opt-in)
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🔬 Beta features: These are cutting-edge capabilities that may change rapidly. Use with caution in production environments.
Available experiments
🗣️ Voice Commands
Talk to Impulsum instead of typing questions
📸 Visual Analysis
Upload screenshots of dashboards for AI analysis
🤖 Auto-Documentation
AI generates project documentation from tickets
🔮 Advanced Forecasting
6-month project predictions with scenario planning
How to enable
- Settings > Experimental Features
- Review disclaimers for each feature
- Enable selectively - don’t turn on everything at once
- Provide feedback - help us improve these features
- Disable anytime - if something isn’t working well
🎯 Configuration Best Practices
Maximizar el value de tu setup
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🏆 Pro tip: Start simple y add complexity gradually. It’s better to have a few well-configured features than many poorly set up ones.
Recommended configuration journey
🚀 Next Steps
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⚙️ Configuration mastery achieved!
Impulsum is now customized for your specific workflow. Your next step is understanding account management, plans and billing to optimize your investment.