A roadmap isn’t just a timeline. It’s your team’s visual plan to turn strategy into action. In Shorter Loop, building a roadmap is flexible, intuitive, and designed to support your workflow, whether you're planning by timeline, sprint, theme, value, or goals.Shorter Loop supports various types of Roadmaps: timeline-based, theme-based, sprint-based, value-based, and objective-based.The most important part is creating a roadmap in Shorter Loop is a seamless and agile process. You can create a roadmap with the work items pulled from Jira and add them to the roadmap.
You will land on the OrgRoadmap by default.At the top of your roadmap screen:
Rename the default name to something meaningful.
It's important to give name to the new roadmap to start working it.
Add a clear objective that tells everyone what this roadmap is trying to achieve.
Note on Org vs. Team Roadmaps:In Shorter Loop, you can create multiple roadmaps based on your needs.- The Org Roadmap gives a holistic view of your organization's long-term objectives, connecting multiple products and teams under one strategic direction.- Other individual roadmaps are ideal for team-level planning, feature launches, or short-term initiatives. They help you track smaller achievements that contribute to the big picture.Tip for team Roadmaps' objective:Your objective should reflect the product goal or business outcome you want to reach with this roadmap.
Decide how you want to organize time in your roadmap:
Quarterly intervals for strategic, long-term goals
Monthly intervals for mid-sized planning
Sprint-based intervals for agile teams working in 1–3 week cycles
Once you choose the format, add time blocks (called “intervals”) to your roadmap. You can add as many as you need.You can also create sub-intervals under any main interval.For example: if your main interval is 2025Q1, you can break it down into 2025Q1.1, 2025Q1.2, 2025Q1.3, etc., for more granular planning.
All your validated Work Items will appear on the right side panel.
Click the Work Items dropdown.
Drag and drop relevant items into the correct time interval on your roadmap.
Each item represents a feature, epic, or initiative that helps you reach your objective.You can also add Objectives and Backlog Work Items directly using the Artifacts button at the top of the roadmap. No need to switch screens—just drop them in from right where you're working.
Swimlanes let you group tasks based on categories like:
Departments (Design, Dev, QA)
Phases (Ideation, Build, Launch)
Initiatives (Bugs, Improvements, New Features)
Just click “Add Swimlane” and name it accordingly. You can create as many as needed based on how your team works.Example: A product development roadmap might use swimlanes like:Ideation → Design → Development → Testing → QA → Launch → Monitoring