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Shortcut is modern project management without all the management. And this is our blog.

Clubhouse's name is now Shortcut

They say there are no shortcuts in life, and they were mostly right about that. Until now. Goodbye Clubhouse. Hello Shortcut.

July 29, 2021

Shortcut News and Updates

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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 we used teamwork to design our Teams feature

How we built Teams to improve on our data model to make it easier for customers to better represent the way they organize their work and structure their teams inside of Shortcut.

Scaling a company with Shortcut from early stage to exit

Learn how Charles Burgess, the former Head of Integrations and very early employee at Perch Security...

Best practices for big team collaboration

Learn how Shaun VanWeelden, Field Engineering Manager at Scale AI, uses our API to build internal in...

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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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Make sound decisions with deeper reporting insights

Learn how Matt Sheaffer, a Senior Engineering Manager at Guru, used our Google Sheets Integration to...

Some developers discuss their branching strategy on Zoom

What's a branching strategy and why would you ever even need one?

Branches make a lot of sense if you're a developer (or a tree, depending on the branch you're talkin...

Some version control best practices you might want to follow. (Up to you, though.)

If you don’t follow version control best practices, your development pipeline will be a hot mess. As...

13 common Git commands that you should consider memorizing

Chances are you’ve been frustrated by Git at some point in your programming career. If that point is...

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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Taking the Shortcut: Shafak Ilyas

Shafak is a person who works at Shortcut. In this post, you'll learn all about her. ...

Performance is key to bringing joy to day to day work

Increased adoption, added usage, and a growing list of features present unique challenges around usa...

Previewing our streamlined Data Model

With our next release around the corner, we're excited to share our roadmap for a more streamlined S...

Evolving our mobile experience

You may have heard we’re changing our name to Shortcut in September. As we evolve, we've also been d...

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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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How to choose the best software development project management tool

If you’re building software, this guide will walk you through how to go about choosing the right project management tool for your software development team.

Designing our new onboarding flow

First impressions are the most important impressions. Here's what we did to improve our own first im...

How Tidelift uses Shortcut to develop their product from ground zero

Tidelift needed a project management tool that prescribed a way for software developers to do their ...

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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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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 ...

How to bring technical and non-technical teams together

Being a product led company means the Product team must actively collaborate with, and incorporate f...

Lead time: What is it and why should Agile teams (or any teams) care?

Lead time is the measurement of how much time passes between task creation and when the work is comp...

What is acceptance testing and do you really need to do it?

Yes, you really do need to do acceptance testing, whether it's simple beta testing or more than that...

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