What is Shortcut?
Software teams like yours face the constant challenge of shipping high-quality products quickly and predictably. Shortcut is a project management platform designed specifically for you, providing a fast, intuitive, and collaborative environment to plan, build, and launch software without the friction of traditional tools.
Key Features
📊 Adaptable Workflows & Kanban Boards: Whether you run Sprints, practice Kanban, or use a hybrid model, Shortcut adapts to your team's process. You can customize workflows, set Work-In-Progress (WIP) limits to ensure smooth flow, and visualize every stage of development, giving you a clear, real-time view of your team's progress.
⚙️ Seamless VCS & Tool Integrations: Shortcut integrates deeply with the tools your team already uses, including GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. Automations update your Stories and Epics based on commits and pull requests, eliminating manual status updates and keeping your project board perfectly in sync with your codebase.
🎯 Integrated Roadmaps & Objectives: Connect your daily work directly to company goals. Use Roadmaps to visualize high-level initiatives (Epics) and the Objectives feature to align your team's efforts with key business results (OKRs). This ensures everyone understands the "why" behind their work and sees their direct impact.
🤖 AI-Powered Teammates & Task Creation: Step into the future of development by collaborating with AI agents directly within Shortcut. Assign work to AI teammates like Korey.ai to instantly draft development-ready Stories and Sub-tasks, turning ideas into actionable plans in seconds and dramatically accelerating your planning process.
How Shortcut Solves Your Problems:
Shortcut is designed to remove friction from your most common workflows.
For Your Engineering Team: Plan your next sprint using Iterations, breaking down large Epics into manageable Stories and Sub-tasks. As developers push code, the GitHub integration automatically links pull requests to Stories and moves them across the board, providing a zero-effort, always-accurate view of progress for your daily stand-up.
For Your Product Manager: Lay out your quarterly strategy on the Roadmap, clearly defining the Epics your team will tackle. Use the Objectives feature to tie each Epic to a company goal, making it easy to justify priorities. As work progresses, you can share status updates with stakeholders directly from the roadmap, ensuring everyone stays informed without constant meetings.
For Leadership & Stakeholders: Get a high-level overview of all projects without micromanaging. View the health status of key initiatives on the Roadmap and drill down into specific Epics or Objectives to see real-time progress. This top-down visibility helps you track alignment with business goals and make informed strategic decisions.
Unique Advantages
Built for Speed and Flow: Shortcut is engineered for performance. From quick load times to powerful keyboard shortcuts, every interaction is designed to be fast and fluid, keeping you in a state of flow. This isn't just a tool; it's a framework—The Shortcut Way—designed to remove friction and let your team focus on building.
Unmatched Flexibility with Structure: Unlike overly rigid or simplistic tools, Shortcut provides the perfect balance. You get just enough structure to keep work organized (Objectives, Epics, Stories) with the flexibility to customize workflows and toggle features on or off. It scales with you, from a small startup to a large enterprise, without imposing a one-size-fits-all process.
Conclusion:
Shortcut empowers your software team to move faster, collaborate more effectively, and stay aligned with your most important goals. It’s the project management platform that gets out of your way so you can focus on what you do best: building what’s next.
Explore how Shortcut can streamline your development lifecycle today!
