2021 Year in Review

As we celebrate the end of another year we want to start by thanking our customers and partners for their continued support of Shortcut.

This year we focused on delivering more features and integrations to make work faster, easier, and more enjoyable. Oh, and yes, we changed our name to Shortcut!

In 2021:

• We've nearly doubled our active users to 130,000+
• Grew to 59,000+ active organizations using Shortcut
• Shortcut users are busier than ever with over 4.3 Million Stories completed in 2021!
• The Shortcut team continues to grow - we now have 70 Shortcuteers working in 8 countries across the world

Organize your work and teams

This year we released updates to our data model to provide a more intuitive set up experience to help orgs scale w/ Shortcut. These data model updates will provide your org with enough structure to organize, and enough flexibility to let you represent your people and process in Shortcut the way you like to work in real life.

Read more about the Data Model Enhancements:

• Teams
• Teams <> Workflow
• Optional Projects

Streamline your setup with our new Data Model

Visualize and communicate progress

We made enhancements to the Roadmap to help folks visualize plans and progress and communicate that up to stakeholders without overwhelming them with information.

Read more about our Roadmap enhancements:

• Epics & Milestone View
• Presentation Mode
• Remove Dates
• Export your Roadmap

Get data driven insights for informed decision making

We are constantly looking for ways to help our users optimize resourcing and identify areas to gain efficiency. We’re focused on giving you the insights you need to make data-driven decisions to help your teams stay productive and efficient. Here are all the updates we made to enhance your reporting capabilities in Shortcut!

• Iteration Velocity Chart
• Updated Cycle and Lead Time Chart
• Updated CFD
• Updated Burndown Chart
• Relative Dates
• Report beyond 100 days
• Customize Report Page View
• Remove weekends from reports
• API v3

Connect Shortcut to an ecosystem of the best tools
True collaboration requires tools to talk to each other. We invested time in creating seamless workflows between Shortcut and other popular tools.

• Productboard Integration
• Google Sheet Integration

Check out our 12 days of Partners to learn about our other integrations!

An Overview of the Productboard + Clubhouse Integration

Quickly and efficiently execute your core tasks & workflows

When you use Shortcut we want to provide you with opinionated views that help focus on the work not the tool.

• Power Bar
• Epic Table In-line Editing
• Milestone Table in-line Editing

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Work Faster with the Power Bar

Add (more) Joy in Shortcut! 🎉

During our last Hackathon, our team shipped a fun way to add (more) joy in Shortcut so you and your team can celebrate your wins and accomplishments in Shortcut. Read more here!

Coming in 2022

As we look forward to 2022, we have many exciting new features and enhancements planned. Here are a few highlights:

• Threaded Comments & Decisions
• UX improvements and performance
• Setup fields
• Project deprecation
• Backlog management
• Status monitoring
• Custom Fields
• WIPs
• …and much more!

We'll be sharing more during our February 2022 Release - stay tuned for more details!

Thank you for being a part of our community and contributing to our success, which is your success. Happy Holidays and we look forward to sharing more exciting news in the new year!

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