Features

Every tool your team needs to build the right product

From strategic discovery to release planning, Product Planner provides a complete toolkit for modern product teams — built for collaboration, powered by AI.

Core planning tools

Purpose-built for product discovery & delivery

Each tool solves a specific challenge in the product development lifecycle, from understanding user needs to shipping the right features.

User story map in Product Planner: activities and user tasks across the top, stories in release slices below

User Story Mapping

Organize user stories into a visual map that reveals the complete user journey, highlights gaps, and helps you define the smallest viable release.

  • Drag-and-drop story organization
  • Release slicing visualization
  • Backbone & walking-skeleton views
  • Sync to Azure DevOps work items
Learn more about User Story Mapping
Opportunity Solution Tree in Product Planner: a product outcome, the opportunities under it, and their solutions

Opportunity Solution Trees

Map desired outcomes to user opportunities and potential solutions. Maintain a structured, evidence-based approach to product decisions.

  • Outcome → opportunity → solution hierarchy
  • Experiment tracking & results
  • Assumption mapping
  • Team voting & prioritization
Learn more about the Opportunity Solution Tree
Now / Next / Later roadmap: opportunities placed as bets under each product outcome

Outcome Roadmaps

Show what you are betting on and why: opportunities as Now, Next and Later under the outcome they serve, and the releases your team is building on a timeline.

  • Now / Next / Later lanes per outcome
  • Drag bets between horizons
  • Delivery timeline with release progress
  • Shareable with stakeholders
Learn more about the roadmap
A persona in Product Planner with goals and pain points

Personas & Research

Create rich user personas grounded in research. Link insights directly to opportunities and stories for truly user-centric development.

  • Persona cards with goals & pains
  • Persona-to-opportunity linking
  • Generate with AI, then chat with a persona
  • Team-wide persona library
Learn more about personas
Collaboration & AI

Work smarter, together

Real-time collaboration keeps your whole team in sync, while AI augments your product thinking.

Real-time collaboration

Stay in sync with live board updates and shared workspaces. Collaborate on planning artifacts with your whole team — whether co-located or fully remote.

  • Live board updates via SignalR
  • Team voting & prioritization
  • Shared workspaces with role-based access
  • Multi-user concurrent editing

AI-powered insights

Let our AI agent help you brainstorm solutions, generate user stories, suggest experiment designs, and surface patterns you might have missed.

  • Story generation from outcomes
  • Opportunity discovery suggestions
  • Experiment design assistant
  • Solution brainstorming & refinement
More capabilities

Built for scale, security, and speed

Everything else that makes Product Planner the right choice for your team.

Native Azure DevOps integration

Two-way sync between your story maps and Azure DevOps work items, with conflict handling. Keep planning and engineering boards aligned, if that is where your team delivers.

Enterprise security

SSO with Microsoft Entra ID, AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS in transit, and Azure-hosted infrastructure with role-based access control.

Real-time sync

Every change syncs instantly across your team via SignalR. No manual refreshes — everyone sees the latest state in real time.

Analytics dashboard

Track discovery coverage, assumption validation rates, and experiment results with built-in analytics and visual progress tracking.

DevOps extension

Embed Product Planner directly into Azure DevOps with our native extension for a seamless workflow.

Templates & frameworks

Get started fast with built-in templates for Lean Product Discovery, Design Sprints, RICE scoring, and more.

MCP Server for Copilot

Connect Product Planner to GitHub Copilot via Model Context Protocol. Reference solutions, stories, and OSTs directly from your IDE while coding.

90-day
free trial, no credit card
2-way
Azure DevOps sync
4-in-1
story maps, trees, roadmaps, personas
Real-time
collaboration for your whole team

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