Shortcut

Avantages

Clubhouse has been really easy to onboard to, curate our roadmap of epics and milestones, track stories across projects, itemize our projects (website vs marketing vs platform vs api vs apps) and segment our work across them but rolling up under the related epics with per project/epic/milestone velocity reporting.

Inconvénients

Figuring out the expected associations between Projects, Milestones -> Epics and how it fits into your product structure took a little trial and error. The main thing I like the least is that as a developer, I'm part of several teams (segmented by Product, Engineering, and Marketing, etc) each with different workflows, and that means I lack a continuous backlog to know "whats next" - I end up having to check each Team to do some mental prioritization to know whats next.

Avantages

The features are relevant and easily configureable; there aren't a ton of fluff fields and features that end up going unused. I can easily filter and create story boards for every need. The roadmap tool is extremely valuable for communicating progress and dependencies to the rest of my organization.

Inconvénients

I wish there was an easier way to track down stories that don't belong to an epic. I can't lose track of the work that needs to be done so I find it imperative to have an epic assigned to all stories.

Avantages

Shortcut is amazing for non-profits who need a flexible and no- to low-cost task/project management platform.

Inconvénients

Unless you work in Agile methodology day in and day out, it can be difficult to understand how to effectively organize tasks/stories into epics and projects.

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Avantages

Joy of use, low barrier to add/modify things

Inconvénients

Priorization of tasks and epics could be easier

Avantages

The features are great and help me organize my work. I like the Github feature that allows linking PRs to tickets and move them along the workflow at different states.

Inconvénients

The organization of concepts is a little confusing. Like when things should be an Epic vs a Milestone etc.

Avantages

We use Clubhouse to manage priorities in our design team and it is really easy to use in this respect. It's easy to create stories, boards and tasks and to steer our team to be more productive.

Inconvénients

I'd love to be able to format text without the need for markdown. That would be great!

Avantages

The UI is fast and responsive and modern. Love dark mode. Test it on veritcal monitors though....

Inconvénients

Vertical monitor use is a pain. Dependency tracking is essentially non-existent because there is no point in creating dependencies for a story if I can't then sort them in dependencies order. GH integrations aren't very good.

Avantages

Clubhouse makes it easy to view and organize work across projects. I like the ability to label things by Epic and create custom workspaces is super helpful. The Clubhouse API is useful for getting information about activity and creating our custom metric reporting.

Inconvénients

The reporting isn't very useful. I feel it is geared toward project management reporting and we don't use project management. I would like to be able to see quality related reports (how many bugs were created/resolved, projects with the most reported bugs, number of bugs created by epic/project. It would also be nice to have the ability to set a Release Date and Production/Testing field on cards so that we can track when features/projects go to production and whether bugs were released as well, or caught during testing.

Avantages

This is a cut above many other simpler apps, without being daunting. The analytics are good enough for most software teams. It integrates with a ton of other apps very easily.

Inconvénients

We are outgrowing Clubhouse right now, I don't think it can keep up with the quantity of teams we have. It's also so flexible that we set it up in a way that has caused us a bunch of issues after a couple years of use. Now untangling those issues is a lot of work.

Avantages

The fact that I can stay on the same page with my colleagues on projects that have lots of cooks in the kitchen is a game changer. I love that we all work out of one project management tool.

Inconvénients

It can be difficult to remember the naming conventions for each piece of the software within Shortcut, so there is a bit of a learning curve.

Avantages

The application is intuitive to use and as a new user it was easy for me to pick it up

Inconvénients

Adding features for multiple epics to be assigned to a story

Avantages

Shortcut is easy to use. I'm able to understand the functionalities and features at a glance.

It has the most of the functionalities compared to Jira.

Inconvénients

Some app integration is missing.

For example, slack integration is not as good as Jira.

Avantages

Being able to track projects and tasks on a daily is amazing, and the ease of use is also incredible. Highly recommend using this product for your SAAS devs, team, etc.

Inconvénients

I have yet to run into something that has really bothered me, or has not worked. So currently no cons.

Avantages

I like that I can request tasks from the software team, and I know when to expect the result

Inconvénients

That I receive the notification via email, sometimes it's just SPAM

Avantages

It's relatively easy to use, and the Slack integration makes tickets relatively easy to create.

Inconvénients

It's not super opinionated on the workflow as opposed to Asana. I can understand why, though, given it's meant to model enterprise workflows.

Avantages

It's easy to use and organize, and there are a lot of customizable features that the previous software I used did not have.

Inconvénients

I wish you could add blockers that aren't other stories, i.e. if I am blocked on something because I need to go confirm something with a Stakeholder, that's not easily indicated within Shortcut. We end up using a Workflow State for "Blocked" stories instead of using the Relationships feature.

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Avantages

The design really helps with using the app fast and with ease. It's feature packed, but the design helps with finding the feature you need fast and efficiently. It's also very smooth and fast, which makes it a pleasure to use. Boards are updated live, meaning changes colleagues make are instantly visible to everyone. We work remote so this is really helpful. Integration with other tools and the API is also very nice and the mobile app is pretty great too, which is quite the accomplishment for such a complex app. I can do anything on the road that I can do on desktop.

Inconvénients

Reporting could be expanded. Also some better automated integration with git would be nice, f.i. creating a new branch for each story automatically (that's how we work anyway).

Avantages

I like how there are many different ways to interact with the software - gives a lot of flexibility in how you want to use it.

Inconvénients

For the core functionality of Scrum/task management, it doesn't feel much different than other, more simple/generic solutions (even like putting some stuff on a Trello board, or GitHub issue tracking)

Avantages

Flexibility of epics, iterations, projects and filters to get a view on the work being done that suits you.

Inconvénients

Search and filtering features could be more user friendly, finding old tickets can be difficult.

Avantages

I like the fact that clubhouse gives me the ability to see what is being worked on a by who. I work remotely and find that sometimes my co-workers (who are in different timezones) are offline and I cannot reach them immediately. Clubhouse has a great communication system built into a worlds best ticket system.

Inconvénients

I don't have any cons really. The one thing I would like to see from clubhouse is possible more filtering options and a better way to report on bugs that we have.

Avantages

I love it's exclusivity! Having to be invited by a member makes it just that much more desirable to get on. It's fun being able to directly interact with celebrities, movers and shakers, and influencers. The rooms are set up according to interest which is great as well.

Inconvénients

The thing I least like about it is the fact that it's invite only. It's kind of a love hate with that aspect. So many of my friends want to join and I know they would find the content useful but cant join due to limited inviting options.

Avantages

I've been using Jira for over 10 years and this is my 1st job that uses ShortCut. I am surprised that it is as good as Jira and I can do everything that I want there. Learning and using the product have been easy too.

Inconvénients

Priority feature. Right now we assign tags to tag our priorities.

Avantages

I received a Beta Test invite in the summer of 2020 and instantly loved the platform. Users are genuine and share valuable audio content. Clubhouse is like having access to TedX quality speakers 24-7

Inconvénients

The platform takes a time to figure out and learn how to navigate.

Avantages

I love how UI friendly the tool is for daily use!

Inconvénients

roadmap feature is not as advanced as I would like it to be

Avantages

I liked the ability to include various subtasks that you could assign to different individuals and teams within one project with a singular goal. This was great for cross-functional projects such as feature launches.

Inconvénients

I thought the design could use some work. For example, Click-Up has a much more modern feel and is more aesthetically appealing.

Avantages

Shortcut is integral to my team keeping track of the projects and tasks. I have it set up such that we can move tickets from different stages, including 'Eventually', 'Prioritized', 'In Development', 'Review', and 'Done'. At a glance, I am able to tell what stage everything is at. Additionally, tickets can be assigned to different people, and the filters make it easy to see what each people is assigned. It's helpful to be able to document conversations within the ticket, and I also appreciate being able to connect Shortcut to GitHub. Shortcut can also be used in Dark mode.

Inconvénients

It would be nice to be able to put people down as 'requesters' even if they are not users of Shortcut. It would help keep track of who is the actual requester, if I was to create a ticket on behalf of someone.

Avantages

Very easy to use and integrate across the whole organization. Create cross functional teams working on various projects across the organization.

Inconvénients

No Integrated calendar view. No method to migrate stories from one workspace to a new workspace when dividing teams or organizations.

Avantages

Shortcut makes project planning easy and allows my team to work together to easily tackle large projects

Inconvénients

One aspect that can be improved is the weighting system. I would prefer the option to better set custom weights for the type of issue (bug vs improvement)

Avantages

Shortcut requires almost zero learning curve. It provides easy agile project management with no cumbersome extras.

Inconvénients

It would be nice to have a task-level board (in addition to the current story-level board) to be able to see the status of tasks quickly.

Avantages

Shortcut lets me track my tasks across projects with ease - in fact that's a core piece of what they do. I've struggled with tools like JIRA in the past that force you to jump through hoops to see tasks across multiple projects, which is a really frustrating experience as a company of one who is constantly shifting between stacks.

Inconvénients

Recently they deprecated their native mobile app, which I found to be disappointing.

Avantages

Easy to use - intuitive, multi dimensional

Inconvénients

I don't like the change of name - I think it's unnecessary

Avantages

I feel like the software is very easy to use, and has a sleek design, which is a huge plus

Inconvénients

I personally didn't get much use out of the epics, but I can definitely see the appeal

Avantages

Shortcut is easy to use and simple to implement. Individual contributors can track requests from other team members, and it becomes a largely functional to-do list, as well as a project management software.

Inconvénients

I wish there were a way to indicate levels of responsibility for a task, instead of just one person or a list.

Avantages

This is an adequate task management/tracking software. It has a fantastic Zendesk integration and multiple customizable fields. It also boasts decent search and filtering functions but it isn't particularly user-friendly and filling out all the fields that make it function well takes a great deal of time (hence the title of this review).

Inconvénients

There are no AI/smart suggestions for related epic/team fields so every time you make a new ticket you have to search through them by scratch. They also don't offer a great tag database or tag definitions so you have to create naming conventions separately offline. You also can't use rich text in story descriptions.

Avantages

You get a great overview.
It's super easy to create / edit story's.
The start page's overview is nice and gives a good heads up.

Inconvénients

It can be confusing where you create a new story at first.
Since there's so many features, you can easily get overwhelmed.

Avantages

How is it easy to work with a team (adding people to epics, milestones, and stories) and the ability to move around priorities as new things come up.

Inconvénients

Not a fan of the metrics but they don't hamper anything. Some overall metrics about milestone timelines etc would be nice.

Avantages

Ease of managing tasks, including editing and updating. The integration with Github is excellent!

Inconvénients

I feel most of the user base is not on mobile, given the nature of the application. However, I feel the mobile app is slow and crashes multiple times. Other than that, I've not had bad experiences with the software

Avantages

As a designer, I love the Figma icon displayed on the kanban board if your card links to a Figma file. When working side by side with developers this feature makes visually separating tasks easy.

Inconvénients

I think the dark theme is too dark. I would like more customization options.

Avantages

Nothing. I would never choose to use this product after doing a proper comparison of similar tools.

Inconvénients

Backlog management is almost non-existent. There's no good issue filtering. Prioritization isn't a first class concept either. Epics can't be linked via dependencies for larger roadmap planning. This puts the primary focus on the team and people instead of the project, which is critical for any useful issue/bug tracker.

Avantages

Board management and ease of use.Tasks can be easily created and managed.

Inconvénients

Prioritization needs to be improved with more levels.

Avantages

User friendly, ease of use, value for money

Inconvénients

Sometimes it takes a lot of time to load

Avantages

The ability to link the history of old documents to documents in use

Inconvénients

Until today no problems with the software

Avantages

As an engineer I love the close integration with github. It is very helpful to have my PRs and cards so closely linked and better help my team understand their progress as they make their way across the board.

Inconvénients

My least favorite part is that the layout can seem a bit convoluted at first. It took me a little while to get used to how everything works on the user interface. I'm not sure that there's a good fix for this as all of the features and filters are very useful, there are just a lot of them and it can be intimidating, visually.

Avantages

Clubhouse is really build with software development projects in mind. It has many ways of displaying the items that teams are working on, and powerful filters to keep the workspace from getting cluttered.

Inconvénients

It is something that takes time to manage. You have to check in with your stories and epics regularly and make sure to keep your information updated. It's worth the time, however.

Avantages

Clubhouse is extremely simple and intutive. It doesn't force you into certain paradigms or organizing your workspace to their specific way. It's a really flexible tool that works really well and gets out of the way.

Inconvénients

Probably my least favorite part is that it doesn't have a concept of a sprint built-in to it, but this is not really a deal breaker. It's really easy to just create a label that defines your sprint and apply that label to all the stories that are in your sprint.

Avantages

I like that it's easy to see chunks of work organized, whether it's in iterations or epics, etc. Since my team works on a weekly iteration, it helps to use the iteration view for the day-to-day to know what we're working on as a team for that week.

Ticket creation is pretty easy too if you have the categories set up for projects, type, etc. I think it facilitates easy organization.

Inconvénients

Sometimes if I keep a tab open, it refreshes but doesn't take me to the same spot. I haven't encountered this too frequently, but it is a mild pain point.

Avantages

It allows my team and I to keep track of our issues, bugs, projects, etc.

Inconvénients

I don’t have anything negative to say about Shortcut.

Avantages

I like the ability to easily create projects, tickets, and sub-tasks and to easily create custom view and filter tickets.

Inconvénients

The one area I see for improvement is the ability to specify LOE in specific units: hours, days etc.

Avantages

Shortcut checks all the boxes! It makes collaboration and product management a breeze for our team.

Inconvénients

The interface is so powerful that it can take a little time getting used to it.

Avantages

Shortcut is an online project management solution that stand for business owner from planning to the full project developpment.

Inconvénients

there is nothing bad for this solution. you just need to learn how to use it

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