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News and Updates
Keep Your Conversations Seamlessly Connected with Slack Thread Sync
Shortcut's new Slack Thread Sync keeps conversations seamlessly synchronized between Slack and Shortcut.
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News and Updates
Sharing Progress with Roadmaps
August
23
News and Updates
Keep Your Conversations Seamlessly Connected with Slack Thread Sync
June
18
Product Development
Importing From Pivotal Tracker to Shortcut
May
22
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Shortcut vs Jira
Escape Jiratation and have a good life again.
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9 Signs it's Time to Break Up with Jira
November
4
It's not you. It's Jira.
Why Do Software Developers Hate Jira?
Because Jira systematically eats away at every part of an engineering culture’s soul.
January
31
5 Ways Jira Slows Everyone Down
Why are you still using Jira?
February
6
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Shortcut Best Practices
Get work done quickly in Shortcut with zero headaches.
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Ultimate Setup Series: Best Practices for Backlog Management
February
22
Now that we have a new backlog feature, you should use our new backlog feature.
Ultimate Setup Series: Best Practices for Docs
Docs, not Confluence.
September
1
Ultimate Setup Series: Best Practices for Teams
There is no I in Team, but there is a Me.
January
20
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How Product & Engineering Work Together
Otherwise known as how to get PMs and engineers to like each other.
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How to Bring Engineers on Board with the Product..
September
15
The best way to build bad software products? Foster a culture of resentment and mistrust.
Product Development the Shortcut Way
It's all about a unified experience.
August
23
Software engineering teams are more productive when they work at a comfortable pace
Work for a company who values your time.
November
16
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Product Development
As the category suggests, articles about product development.
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What is Product Management? A Detailed Explanation Simple Enough for a Five Year-Old to Understand
October
12
Product managers shouldn’t have to manage their project management tool.
Why Agile Product Management Works
Processes that work make people happy, as opposed to processes that don’t work.
August
9
Why It's Important to Maintain Your Product Backlog, Especially Now That We Have a Backlog Feature
Stay focused on the most important tasks, while also not forgetting about all that other stuff.
February
16
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News and Updates
What are we up to over here at Shortcut? Read the blog posts from this section to find out.
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Unlock better prioritization and planning in Shortcut with the Backlog
February
27
The Shortcut Backlog provides a view of work that can be prioritized for the development team based on their roadmap and goals.
Advanced Custom Fields are here for more control..
Advanced Custom Fields help your team categorize work and provide the structure to support your unique process. With advanced Custom Fields your organization can organize and represent your work and processes in Shortcut the way you like to work in real life.
October
19
The 2022 Shortcut Hackathon Round Up
We had a hackathon again!
November
10