Shortcut

“My #1 priority is checking for updates where I've been mentioned or asked a question. Our development team moves fast, so I don't want to hold anyone up.”

“Shortcut keeps us aligned on priorities. We stack rank work in the Kanban view, and since we don't rely on Slack, Shortcut is where we track progress and communicate about projects. Even our non-technical teams use it, like marketing, who run projects in Shortcut because it's so easy to get up and running.”

“The GitHub integration is huge for us. It moves Stories forward as PRs are opened and merged. We also use Zapier and Webhooks to automate workflows in other tools.”

“Shortcut has sensible opinions about how development teams function. We branch based on feature names, write and push code, open pull requests, and merge them. Shortcut understands this workflow and integrates seamlessly, so Stories move through our process automatically. That saves us time, reduces manual work, and keeps communication up-to-date.”

“I first found Shortcut back in 2014 or 2015 when I was leading a team of 8-9 developers who didn't have a dedicated dev tool. Jira felt like a bag of bolts, and I wasn't looking for a general-purpose tool like Trello or Asana. Shortcut was different: it was fast, had great UX, and was clearly built with software teams in mind.”

“"We're at the point now where we can go in and grease certain hinges and tweak this and that and speed things up even more," Josh said. "It's that efficiency that we didn't even have time to worry about previously."”

“"The ability for us to customize the API's to build out what we needed, and use the one-button click for our less-technical people is really tremendous."”

“"Shortcut is not overly opinionated to the point where we wouldn't be able to just make it work within our system,"”

“Shortcut doesn't require that full-time management overhead. It's great for our team, and we use it for all of our engineering efforts,”

“It's really helpful for giving non-technical people visibility into technical work.”

“When a Story is completed, we send it through our AI to decide if it belongs in a changelog or could be turned into a social post,”

“Being able to just 'create a Shortcut Story from Slack' is immensely helpful,”

“Linking Slack threads to Stories was a game changer.”

“Most of our conversations happen in Slack,”

“We're a very meeting-light organization, so having the Stories reflect the state of the work has been really helpful in keeping everybody aligned,”

“Jira was overly complex, especially for a small business. Every time I've seen Jira work, somebody had to have a full-time job managing it.”

“Six months in we're really happy with our decision to move to Shortcut.”

“Switching to Shortcut improved our visibility and efficiency, and helped us to double the size of our engineering team ,”

“Shortcut helps us stay organized and provides consistent visibility across different teams.”

“We chose Shortcut because it was a project management platform that could help us scale the team. It was simple to use and also had the functionality to help with prioritization and collaboration,”

“We've brought real structure to the way we work, and we can actually demonstrate it. That's been really powerful.”

“We didn't have to spend time getting people up to speed. It's straightforward, and it just makes sense.”

“It works with how we already operate. And the integrations just work, there's no heavy lifting.”

“The Objectives view was key for me. We can zoom out to see what we want to achieve this quarter and zoom in to the specific Epics that support that. It's made planning and communication so much easier.”

“There was a lot of change happening, but we couldn't always explain why. Now we can. We know when work is impacted by urgent issues or shifting priorities, and we can communicate that clearly.”