New flow insights: work in progress

Managing the amount of work in progress is one of the best ways for a team to improve focus and get work done faster.

Flow Insights plots the number of open Pull Requests, Epics, Stories and Tasks on a timeline, helping teams understand how much work they have on their plate at a given time.

Lots of Work in Progress usually correlates with longer cycle time and intermittent progress, which is something you can identify in work log. What correlations can you find?

Other improvements

  • Usability improvements/fixes in personal and Slack settings
  • Improvements and bugfixes to Insights charts and tooltips

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· Aug 14, 2026

Connect Shortcut to Swarmia [beta]

You can now connect Shortcut to Swarmia as an issue tracker, alongside a growing number of other issue trackers . Once connected, your Shortcut Stories and Epics flow into Swarmia and behave just like any other issue. That means you get the full picture: metrics like cycle time and flow efficiency,…
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· Aug 12, 2026

Connect multiple Jira instances to one Swarmia organization

Large engineering organizations often run more than one Jira instance. Different departments spin up their own, or subsidiaries arrive with instances already in place. Whatever the reason, it shouldn’t stop you from seeing your engineering metrics in one place. You can now connect multiple Jira…
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