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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More changelog updates
· Aug 24, 2026

Measure engineering effort more accurately with the daily effort model

We’ve reworked how Swarmia calculates developer effort. Instead of calculating effort once from a whole month of activity, the model now looks at one working day at a time and adds the days together. Under the previous model, a single busy stretch of a few days could account for a large share of…
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· Aug 19, 2026

Connect any AI coding tool to Swarmia

Most engineering organizations now run several AI coding tools, and some build their own. You can now add any of them to Swarmia as a custom AI tool, alongside our built-in integrations for GitHub Copilot , Cursor , and Claude Code . Once it’s connected, you get the same visibility into its…
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