Plan
Align roadmaps, prioritize with clarity, and structure delivery using collaborative story maps. It’s an all-in-one connected planning suite built for cross-functional teams. Use Shorter Loop’s planning tools for smart and quick delivery.
Define your Product Objectives into Actionable Plans
Build visual roadmaps, prioritize high-impact work, and organize delivery with user story maps. Plan your successful product in one connected workspace that keeps strategy and execution aligned.
No credit card required. Full access to all product discovery features for 14 days.
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Why do you need an Integrated Product Plan Suite?
Product planning is no longer just about timelines and tasks. Become a part of a workflow that helps you stay on track, prioritize smartly, and deliver value without confusion. Get to know the ‘WHY’ behind the integrated planning suite.
Turn Ideas Into Actionable Product Plans
Select validated ideas and transform them into structured product plans. With visual roadmaps, timelines, and clear ownership, you can align strategy with execution and build what truly matters, faster, and with complete clarity.
Before you build, evaluate what matters most
Shorter Loop helps you assess feature ideas based on market research and experimentation. Filter out distractions, make better product decisions, and ensure your roadmap includes only what drives your product towards success.
Plan Around User Journeys, Not Just Releases
Structure your roadmap around what your users actually experience. Story maps help your teams build in context, organizing product features by objectives, opportunities, and solutions, not just dates and deliverables.
Product Planning Capabilities
The Shorter Loop Framework creates a continuous cycle of product improvement through three interconnected phases:
Build Visual Roadmaps Linked to Real Objectives
Keep everyone focused with strategic roadmaps that turn product vision into reality.
Your roadmap should reflect real objectives, not just a list of features. Plan with purpose, and connect every initiative to outcomes that lead to business success.
Drag and drop objectives directly onto the roadmap
Link items from the objectives and work items to the roadmap
Create multi-level and organization-wide roadmaps with ease
Filter views by team, timeline, or status to stay on track
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Prioritize features that deliver maximum impact
Avoid getting into chaos by taking action on your instincts.
Use data from market research and experiments to prioritize work that drives impact. Shorter Loop’s prioritization tools help you focus on what really matters.
Weighted scoring frameworks (Value vs Effort)
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Reorder tasks easily with drag-and-drop functionality
Share and Export Roadmaps for Stakeholder Alignment
Make collaboration easy with downloadable roadmaps. Share live plans as PDFs or images, giving execs, partners, or clients visibility into your progress, without needing them inside the platform.
Export roadmaps as a PDF or an image for offline sharing
Share updates with cross-functional teams or leadership
Keep everyone aligned with minimal back-and-forth
Reduce dependency on screenshots or third-party tools
How Shorter Loop Compares to Other Product Planning Tools
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Advanced Product Planning Tools Only in Shorter Loop
Take a leap from just a roadmap tool to advanced planning with Shorter Loop. Designed for modern product teams, manage multiple products with different teams in one place, or start planning on a whiteboard and connect to the roadmap, without any complexity.
Plan Across Every Level With Multi-Level Roadmaps
Align leadership goals with team-level execution in one connected view
Make cross-functional planning simple and transparent. With multi-level roadmaps, you can align strategic direction with hands-on delivery, ensuring every team is focused on shared outcomes.
View company, product, and team roadmaps together
Link strategic objectives to initiatives and timelines
Track dependencies across teams
Customize views for each department
Org-Wide Roadmaps for Executive Visibility
Give leadership a complete view of product progress
Bring clarity to complex planning with a unified roadmap built for business stakeholders. Show progress, highlight blockers, and align executive expectations across products and portfolios.
Combine multiple team roadmaps into a single view
Visualize progress across products or departments
Identify support needs and delivery risks early
Share filtered roadmap views with executives
Present the strategy clearly during planning meetings
Connect Strategic Work to Every Roadmap Item
Connect your roadmap items directly to strategic goals and insights
No more feature lists with no context. Every roadmap item can be tied to objectives, discovery insights, or business outcomes—so teams always understand the purpose behind what they're building.
Link roadmap items to goals, OKRs, and outcomes
Pull in insights from discovery and validation stages
Add context using AI-suggested strategy tags
Keep strategy visible as delivery progresses
Visual Planning With Whiteboards and Docs
Plan how your team thinks—with flexible, connected workspaces
Not every plan fits on a timeline. Shorter Loop includes built-in whiteboards and a collaborative doc hub so teams can brainstorm, outline, and document in their own way before committing to a roadmap.
Use digital whiteboards to sketch and structure ideas
Organize early-stage planning with collaborative docs
Link docs and whiteboards to roadmap items
How Shorter Loop’s Planning Tools Help Product Teams Succeed
Give your team the tools to plan better together. Align strategy, evaluate work, and coordinate delivery in one connected workspace. It’s built for modern product teams that need clarity, speed, and alignment.
Align Strategy With Daily Execution
Connect high-level goals to team-level tasks through multi-level roadmaps
Ensure all teams understand how their work contributes to the big picture
Keep leadership and delivery teams aligned without manual updates
Plan Around What Users Actually Experience
Use story maps to structure delivery around user journeys, not feature lists
Break down features by steps, goals, and releases
Build MVPs and releases that reflect user value, not internal guesswork
Make Better Decisions, Faster
Use prioritization frameworks to evaluate what’s worth building
Move away from opinion-led decisions and
Visualize decisions with a drag-and-drop matrix and shared scoring
Keep teams in sync, without any chaos
Create roadmaps and docs in collaboration
Plan visually using whiteboards, roadmaps, and doc hubs
Give every stakeholder the visibility they need, without extra meetings
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the 'Plan' suite in Shorter Loop?
The Plan suite is your command center for turning validated ideas into actionable plans. It includes tools for building visual roadmaps, setting clear priorities, and organizing delivery through interactive story maps. Whether you're aligning leadership goals with team execution or mapping features by user journey, Plan Suite bridges the gap between strategy and delivery.
How do I use Roadmaps inside Shorter Loop?
Our roadmap canvas lets you create high-level and detailed roadmaps. It supports multi-level and organization-wide roadmaps, making it ideal for teams who need to plan across products, portfolios, or departments.
What is Story Mapping, and how do I use it?
Story Mapping helps you visualize your product features as they relate to the user journey. Instead of managing tasks in isolation, you can lay out steps based on customer actions, define MVPs, and organize features by objectives and releases inside the Product Strategy itself.
Can different teams or departments plan separately within Shorter Loop?
Yes, Shorter Loop allows teams to plan independently while staying connected to shared company goals. You can create team-specific roadmaps, assign roles, and use filters to manage multiple product streams—all from the same workspace.
How does Prioritization work in Shorter Loop?
Our prioritization engine supports proven frameworks like RICE and Value vs Effort, while also letting you define your own criteria. You can apply scores, collaborate with team members, and visualize priorities in a matrix view. The result: faster, more confident decisions backed by data.
Can I customize planning workflows for different teams?
Yes. Shorter Loop supports multiple team setups and workflows. Each team can customize how they view and organize their roadmap, prioritize work, and use story maps. Whether you're planning quarterly themes at the executive level or weekly delivery sprints, you can tailor the system to your specific rhythm.
How does Shorter Loop help with aligning cross-functional teams?
With tools like multi-level roadmaps and shareable story maps, everyone — from execs to engineers — stays aligned. Teams can comment directly on initiatives, vote on priorities, and track dependencies across the planning cycle. This removes ambiguity and ensures every team understands not just what they’re building, but why.
Does the planning suite work with discovery and delivery tools?
Absolutely. Planning is seamlessly connected to both the Discover and Deliver modules in Shorter Loop. Insights from customer research feed directly into your roadmap and backlog, while your prioritized work automatically transitions into delivery stages. This ensures continuity across the entire product lifecycle.
Is AI optional, or always active?
AI is fully optional and customizable. You can choose where to apply AI suggestions — from auto-surfacing opportunities to assisting in prioritization scoring. It supports your workflow without overriding human decisions, giving you control while enhancing speed and insight.
Smarter Roadmaps, Better Results
Replace messy spreadsheets with a connected planning hub. No more shifting priorities and unclear timelines. Shorter Loop keeps planning structured, transparent, and adaptable to change.
No credit card required. Full access to all product discovery features for 14 days.
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