Roadmap
Build visual product roadmaps with drag-and-drop planning. Connect strategic objectives to delivery milestones. Create timeline-based, theme-based roadmaps for product teams.
Transform Your Product Strategy Into Actionable Roadmaps
Build visual product roadmaps that connect strategic objectives to delivery milestones. Create timeline-based, theme-based, and objective-driven roadmaps that keep your entire team aligned and focused on what matters most.
No credit card required. Full access to all product discovery features for 14 days.
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Align Your Team Around Strategic Product Planning
With Shorter Loop's advanced roadmap builder, you can create comprehensive product roadmaps that bridge the gap between high-level strategy and tactical execution. Our integrated roadmap planning tools help product managers, development teams, and stakeholders stay synchronized on product direction, feature priorities, and delivery timelines.
Integrate seamlessly with your existing customer discovery process and strategic planning workflow to create roadmaps that truly reflect customer needs and business objectives.
Visual Drag-and-Drop Roadmap Builder
Create intuitive product roadmaps using our visual drag-and-drop interface. Move objectives, features, and work items across timelines, swimlanes, and intervals with precision control. Learn more about our comprehensive planning tools.
Drag objectives directly onto roadmap timelines
Link work items from backlog to roadmap intervals
Create multi-level organizational and product roadmaps
Filter roadmap views by team, timeline, or status
Custom swimlanes for department organization
Multi-Level Roadmap Architecture
Build comprehensive roadmap hierarchies that connect executive strategy to team execution. Create organization-wide roadmaps for leadership visibility while maintaining detailed product roadmaps. Integrate with your OKR management system.
Product Roadmaps: Feature-focused planning for individual products
Organizational Roadmaps: Strategic theme-based portfolio planning
Release Roadmaps: Sprint and version-based delivery planning
Market Roadmaps: Customer segment and market expansion planning
Strategic Objective Integration
Connect every roadmap item to strategic objectives, ensuring alignment between product development and business goals. Link roadmap features to OKRs, business outcomes, and customer value propositions through our strategy management platform.
Link roadmap items to strategic objectives and OKRs
Track progress toward business goals
Connect features to customer value propositions
Maintain strategic alignment across all initiatives
Complete Workflow Integration
Your roadmaps seamlessly integrate with Shorter Loop's complete product management suite and external development tools like Jira for synchronized planning and execution. Connect with your favorite development tools.
Connected strategy-to-execution pipeline
Customer feedback integration
Two-way Jira synchronization
Development progress tracking
Seamless Collaboration and Sharing
Share roadmaps instantly with stakeholders, customers, and cross-functional teams to ensure seamless collaboration. Export roadmaps as PDFs, images, or live links for presentations and documentation. Enhance collaboration with our team collaboration tools.
One-click PDF and image export
Live sharing with real-time updates
Stakeholder-specific roadmap views
Cross-functional team alignment tools
Advanced Roadmap Planning for Modern Product Teams
Agile Roadmap Planning Adapt your roadmaps to agile development methodologies with sprint-based intervals, story mapping integration, and flexible timeline adjustments. Our roadmap tools support both predictive and adaptive planning approaches. Integrate with your agile development workflow.
Cross-functional Leadership Build roadmaps around customer journeys and user value delivery. Connect roadmap features to user personas, customer feedback themes, and market research insights through our customer insights platform.
Data-Driven Decisions Manage multiple product roadmaps within a unified strategic framework. Coordinate resource allocation, identify cross-product dependencies, and maintain strategic alignment across your entire product portfolio with our portfolio management tools.
Frequently Asked Questions
What types of roadmaps can I create in Shorter Loop?
Shorter Loop supports multiple roadmap types, including product roadmaps, organizational roadmaps, release roadmaps, and market expansion roadmaps. You can create timeline-based, theme-based, or objective-driven roadmaps depending on your planning needs.
How do I connect my roadmap to strategic objectives?
Every roadmap item can be linked directly to strategic objectives, OKRs, and business outcomes. This ensures your roadmap reflects strategic priorities and helps track progress toward business goals.
Can I share roadmaps with external stakeholders?
Yes, you can export roadmaps as PDFs or images for offline sharing, or create live sharing links for real-time roadmap access. You can customize roadmap views for different stakeholder audiences.
How does drag-and-drop work in roadmap planning?
Our visual drag-and-drop interface allows you to move objectives, features, and work items across timelines, swimlanes, and intervals. You can reorganize roadmap items horizontally across time periods and vertically across different organizational themes.
What's the difference between product roadmaps and org roadmaps?
Product roadmaps focus on individual product strategy and feature development, while organizational roadmaps provide portfolio-wide strategic planning across multiple products. Org roadmaps use strategic themes as organizing principles, while product roadmaps focus on specific features and releases.
How do I apply filters to focus my roadmap view?
Use comprehensive filtering options to view roadmaps by work item type (epics, features, stories), owner assignment, status progression, or timeline. Filters help you focus on specific aspects of your roadmap without visual clutter.
Can I integrate roadmaps with my existing development tools?
Yes, Shorter Loop provides two-way integration with Jira and other development tools. Your roadmap stays synchronized with actual development progress while maintaining strategic oversight and planning capabilities.
How do I prioritize items on my roadmap?
Use built-in prioritization frameworks including RICE scoring, value vs. effort matrices, and custom prioritization models. Apply data-driven prioritization to ensure your roadmap focuses on high-impact initiatives.
What collaboration features are available for roadmap planning?
Team members can comment directly on roadmap items, track dependencies across teams, and coordinate delivery through shared roadmap visibility. Real-time collaboration ensures everyone stays aligned on roadmap progress.
How do I create swimlanes for roadmap organization?
Add custom swimlanes to organize roadmap items by department, initiative, customer segment, or any other categorization that fits your planning needs. Swimlanes provide visual organization for complex roadmaps with multiple workstreams.
Transform Your Product Planning Today
Replace messy spreadsheets with a connected planning hub. Build dynamic, strategic roadmaps that connect your product vision to delivery execution.
No credit card required. Full access to all product discovery features for 14 days.
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