Spot and prevent scope creep early on

Analyze your development flow with scope creep insights

Remember that time when a small and straightforward project ended up taking weeks or even months to complete? We’ve all have been there. Today we’re excited to introduce new tools to help you diagnose flow issues, recognize scope creep signals early on, and improve planning accuracy.

👉 Select an issue in work log to see a burn up chart with all tasks added and completed over its lifetime. New tasks added while an issue is in progress count towards estimated scope creep.

Other improvements

  • When tracking commits merged to master without review, you can now see the name of the default branch for each commit in the exceptions list, and each repository in repository settings
  • Bugs issue type is now available for all working agreements (e.g. Bugs are closed in under 7 days)
  • Performance and stability improvements: we fixed some timeouts and “Unexpected token < in JSON” errors that you might have seen lately

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More changelog updates
· 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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