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
· Sep 11, 2026

Find out how much of your cycle time is spent in draft

Cycle time is an aggregate metric, and alone it doesn’t describe where things slow down. Now you can look at each pull request stage and analyze outliers in each — whether it’s review time, merge time, in progress time or time as a draft. Draft time shows how much of a pull request’s cycle time it…
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· Sep 7, 2026

Connect GitHub Issues to Swarmia [beta]

You can now connect GitHub Issues to Swarmia as an issue tracker, alongside a growing number of other issue trackers . Once connected, your GitHub issues flow into Swarmia and behave just like any other issue. That means you get the full picture: metrics like cycle time and flow efficiency, plus an…
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