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January 13, 2022

Product Management

Project management for product managers: What to know

January 24, 2022

Project Management

Ultimate Setup Series: Best Practices for Teams

January 20, 2022

Project Management

Task Management, Issue Tracking, Project Management, and Product Management: What's the Difference?

January 13, 2022

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Distributing Joy

A look at how to manage software teams (and other teams), both remotely and in-person.

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How to Thank a Coworker

Studies show that 9 out of 10 people wish they heard "thank you" in their daily interactions. Of course they do. In this post, Shortcut’s very own Mike Long, Director of Design, Christine Sanderson-Movius, Software Engineer, and Dana Calderone, Growth Product Manager participated in a roundtable discussion on how to best make their coworkers feel valued, appreciated, and thanked.

8 Ways to Improve Cross-Team Collaboration

If you’re in agile software development, you probably have multiple teams, or you’re growing into an...

Transparency: messy but worth it

Shortcut co-founder and Chief Design Officer Andrew Childs writes from experience about why transpar...

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Software Engineering

Deep dives into software development topics: from hopefully helpful tips to discussions about how we built, and continue to build, Shortcut.

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12 Days of Partners, Integrations, and Other Good Stuff

Our twelfth featured post is dedicated to all of our partnerships and integrations. Because no man i...

12 Days of Partners, Integrations, and Other Good Stuff: React-Spring

Our tenth feature in this continuing series: React-Spring. The platform that breathes life into your...

12 Days of Partners, Integrations, and Other Good Stuff: Google Sheets

Our ninth featured integration is: Google Sheets. Google is a small, relatively unknown company whos...

12 Days of Partners, Integrations, and Other Good Stuff: Rollbar

Our eighth featured Integration is Rollbar, which helps you roll right over any bugs you encounter. ...

News & Updates

What are we up to over here at Shortcut? Read the blog posts from this section to find out.

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2021 Year in Review

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

Add (more) Joy to Shortcut!

The goal of adding JOY to Shortcut has always been a mission of ours since the company was founded. ...

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Project Management

Agile, kanban, scrum, cycle time, lead time, burndown: there are an awful lot of words associated with project management. See how to best put them all to use.

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Ultimate Setup Series: Best Practices for Teams

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to using Shortcut. You do you, is what we say. But we’d like to share some best practices for setting up Teams, because who are we to keep tips and tricks to ourselves? That’s not very team-like. Our Teams feature is the key to unlocking collaboration in Shortcut. In this post, find best practices around: Team size, number of Teams, how to use Teams in sprints (Iterations), connecting Teams and Workflows, reporting on Teams, and viewing Epics and Milestones by Team.

Task Management, Issue Tracking, Project Management, and Product Management: What's the Difference?

Management, tracking, projects, tasks, issues… If you have a job - you know, that thing you do for m...

12 Days of Partners, Integrations, and Other Good Stuff: Slack

On the Third Day of Partnerships, Integrations, and Other Good Things, Shortcut brings to you: Slack...

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Product Management

It's just like Project Management, but it's spelled with a d. And also with a u.

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Project management for product managers: What to know

Project and product managers are two vital roles that are often confused with each other. Why is thi...

The Best Issue Tracking Systems for 2022

In software development, issue tracking systems provide the necessary support to ensure that all iss...

Ultimate Setup Series: Get Started with the Basics

Welcome to Shortcut! And welcome to the Ultimate Setup Series. Use this series for guidance in putti...

Why I was told not to become a Product Manager... and became one anyway

In the right work environment, product management can be a joy. Even for those product managers out ...

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Project management for product managers: What to know

Ultimate Setup Series: Best Practices for Teams

Task Management, Issue Tracking, Project Management, and Product Management: What's the Difference?