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About

Shorter Loop is an intuitive all-in-one product management platform that confidently helps businesses of all sizes streamline their product management activities while keeping customers' expectations in mind. Equipped with various frameworks, models, and techniques, modern businesses and teams across the globe can create product visions, personas, create assumptions/hypotheses, and test them through experiments with target audiences/personas to validate them further by mapping their needs, goals, and wants. Gathering customer feedback early in the process, i.e., at the discovery stage, and iterating and fine-tuning the ideas based on that, enables product managers, product teams, business owners, marketers, startup founders, and AI-driven SaaS-based software product organizations to achieve product-market fit and ties back to business and revenue goals, ensuring that the product does not fail among customers.

About

Productboard is a product management platform that helps product teams get the right products to market, faster, by understanding what customers need, prioritizing what to build next, and aligning everyone around the roadmap. Over 6,000 companies, including Microsoft, Zoom, 1-800-Contacts, and UiPath, use Productboard to understand what users need, prioritize what to build next, and rally everyone around their roadmap. With offices in San Francisco, Prague, and Vancouver, Productboard is backed by leading investors like Dragoneer Investment Group, Tiger Global Management, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Credo Ventures.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Teams of all sizes and in various industries such as Healthtech

Audience

Product organizations from startups to enterprise companies

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

For Pricing
Reach out to us at "contact @shorterloop.com" for price inquiry
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$19.00/maker/month
Productboard offers plans starting at $19.00/maker/month for Essentials, billed annually. Free 15 day trials are available for all plans. Pro, Enterprise, and AI pricing details can be found on the Productboard website.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 4.7 / 5
design 4.7 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 4.8 / 5
design 4.8 / 5
support 4.8 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Shorter Loop has transformed how we manage our product workflow. Its easy-to-use features streamline task management, team collaboration, and document sharing throughout the agile development process. The platform supports brainstorming, saving and using templates, and efficient task assignment. It helps with resource allocation and links roadmaps to business goals. The feedback system gathers valuable insights from various stakeholders, improving our decision-making. Integrated product analytics and a comprehensive dashboard track product metrics and progress, ensuring smooth execution from discovery to launch. Teams across different functions can collaborate effectively by sharing key documents and updates in one place.
  • I and my product teams, 2 software developer, 2 ui ux designers and head of products use Shorter Loop for my saas crm product, we use the tool for various reasons: 1. Clean UI. 2. Easy to learn, no hand holding needed. 3. For my existing product when I am trying to identify my target audience, the ai powered continuous discovery tool gives me a whole new insight which is well researched i.e. new segment of audiences which I have not targeted right now as I have not thought through it. 4. It creates a better product vision, my audience profile including old n new segments with a lot more deeper insights of pains, goals, needs, aspirations, the tool then helps me create many experiments to set up run on these customer segments to validate these problems n these are so sound that I can identify with the tool's prioritization matrix which one I should prioritize now, in mid term or in long term, etc...
  • The Collaboration feature of Shorter Loop has really made it easy for us to work smoothly. We can invite N number of team members, work together, and can share ideas in real time. Along with this, the Feedback Manager or the Idea Manager, it has helped us a lot in exploring the idea in depth, so that we can decide if we want to go with it or not. The AI-powered Idea Manager is the best feature of the tool.
  • Shorter Loop perfects the product road mapping by prioritizing the right features. It does an amazing job with its simple value and effort matrix/chart by identifying the right features to prioritize from the first day that will be liked by the majority of our customers.
  • - Business model that is tying everything together - needs, pains of persona to value proposition, internal cost, resources, with business objective and revenue goal. - Requirement gathering is easy in the tool in various ways - Idea Manager, setting up experiments and validate them. - Easily save the top feedback items as work items, create epic, story and features easily. - Product post launch metrics - easy to track and set up and get all metrics in one console from web site product page visit, sign up, daily usage, monthly usage, churn, churn propensity, CSAT, NPS and more...

Cons

  • Shorter Loop offers a comprehensive solution with no notable drawbacks.
  • Shorter Loop is continuously coming up with upgraded and advanced features. No dislike at all.
  • There is nothing to dislike about shorter loop tool. I will recommend every company to try it once.
  • Don’t remember anything of such, noting to add to this point.
  • Would be good to have more product roadmap templates and various other ways to prioritize features of the product that customers are looking for.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Productboard makes it easy to turn scattered customer feedback into clear priorities. The roadmap views are clean and easy to share with stakeholders, and the way it links feedback to features helps us justify decisions instead of just going with gut feeling. Integrations with tools like Slack and Jira also save a lot of manual work.
  • The user interface is just awesome. Business progress mapping is a great feature. Team workflow management makes it easy to track work progress. Marketing planning to move the business in the right direction.
  • #1- Productboard is an excellent product manager. #2- It helps you to build the best product by prioritizing user needs. #3- Slack integration gives a great experience. #4- It covers Sales, support, user feedback and analysis.
  • Makes it easy to triage new inputs from all your team and manage research in a single place. You can prioritize ideas and features (weighted drivers, value/effort, visual matrix) easily; plan releases; communicate a roadmap, and work across teams. Super flexible but also rooted in a strong foundation of product excellence. Team is always growing the product (API, teams, improved insights as examples), and is very responsive.

Cons

  • The learning curve is steeper than expected, especially for new team members trying to understand how objectives, features, and releases connect. Some of the customization options are limited, and a few actions that feel like they should be simple end up taking more clicks than necessary. Pricing can also add up once you need more advanced features.
  • I never encountered any problem with this platform.
  • #1- Nothing to dislike about productboard. Its integration is best.
  • Wish it had a slightly better Chrome extension and more prioritization options that allowed for custom calculations. Would also be nice if plans incorporated more Contributors or flexibility for Viewers to use the Chrome extension.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Shorter Loop
Founded: 2020
Netherlands
shorterloop.com

Company Information

Productboard
Founded: 2014
San Francisco
www.productboard.com

Alternatives

Alternatives

ProdPad

ProdPad

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Aha!

Aha!

Aha! Labs
Jira

Jira

Atlassian

Categories

Categories

Product Management Features

Collaboration
Feedback Collection
Idea Management
Milestone Tracking
Prioritization
Product Roadmapping
Release Management
Requirements Management
Resource Management
Workflow Management

Product Roadmap Features

Collaboration
Content Import / Export
Diagramming
Drag & Drop
Feature Management
Milestone Tracking
Prioritization
Requirements Management
Workflow Management

Product Management Features

Collaboration
Feedback Collection
Idea Management
Milestone Tracking
Prioritization
Product Roadmapping
Release Management
Requirements Management
Resource Management
Workflow Management

Product Roadmap Features

Collaboration
Content Import / Export
Diagramming
Drag & Drop
Feature Management
Milestone Tracking
Prioritization
Requirements Management
Workflow Management

Agile Project Management Tools Features

Backlog Management
Feedback Management
Gantt/Timeline View
Kanban Board
Prioritization
Request Management
Resource Management
Retrospectives Management
Status Tracking
Supports Scrum
Team Management
Template Management
Workflow Management

Business Plan Features

Business Plan Templates
Collaboration
Dashboard
Financial Projections
Financial Templates
Fundraising Management
Investor Management
Pitch Presentation
Social Sharing
Step-by-Step Wizard

Business Process Management Features

Access Controls / Permissions
Alerts / Notifications
Business Process Automation
Business Rules Management
Collaboration
Process Change Tracking
Process Mapping
Process Modeling & Design
Visual Workflow Management

Gantt Chart Features

Alerts/Notifications
Capacity Monitoring
Color Coding
Dependency Tracking
Drag & Drop
Milestone Tracking
Progress Tracking
Task Management
Templates

IT Project Management Features

Bug Tracking
Issue Management
Milestone Tracking
Percent-Complete Tracking
Portfolio Management
Prioritization
Product Roadmapping
Requirements Management
Resource Management
Status Tracking
Supports Agile
Supports Scrum
Task Management
Testing / QA Management
Time & Expense Tracking

Kanban Features

Collaboration Tools
Dependency Tracking
KPI Monitoring
Milestone Tracking
Multi-Board
Prioritization
Project Planning
Roadmapping
Supports Scrum
Task Management
Time Tracking

OKR Features

Benchmarking
Feedback Management
Goal Management
KPIs
Prioritization
Progress Tracking
Strategic Planning

Production Scheduling Features

"What If" Scenarios
Automated Scheduling
Bottleneck Optimization
Capacity Planning
Constraint Scheduling
Job Scheduling
Material Planning
Priority-Based Scheduling
Quality Control

Project Management Features

Agile Methodologies
Budget Management
Client Portal
Collaboration Tools
Cost-to-Completion Tracking
Customizable Templates
Gantt Charts
Idea Management
Kanban Board
Milestone Tracking
Portfolio Management
Resource Management
Time & Expense Tracking
Traditional Methodologies

Integrations

Slack
5X
Boost.space
Causal
Desktop.com
Eververse
Figma
Fullstory
Gmail
Grain
Hatica
Microsoft Teams
Mindmesh
Mixpanel
Nango
Rambox
Salesforce
Supaboard
Ybug
Zendesk

Integrations

Slack
5X
Boost.space
Causal
Desktop.com
Eververse
Figma
Fullstory
Gmail
Grain
Hatica
Microsoft Teams
Mindmesh
Mixpanel
Nango
Rambox
Salesforce
Supaboard
Ybug
Zendesk
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