Project Planning Software

A plan is only as good as the queue behind it

Most planning breaks down before a single card gets created. Requests arrive by chat, email and hallway conversation, get promised informally, and only show up on a roadmap after they're already half-committed. The plan ends up documenting decisions that were made somewhere else.

ShipSprint puts a single door in front of that chaos. Every new piece of work (a feature request, a support escalation, a marketing ask) lands in a triage inbox instead of someone's inbox. Nothing is scheduled, staffed or promised until it's been looked at against what the team can actually take on.

That's the whole difference. Planning here is the act of moving something out of triage and onto a board with a column, an owner and room in the sprint, not the act of writing a document about intentions.

A request, start to finish

Take a concrete case. Marketing wants a referral program live before the next campaign. Under the old way, that request goes straight into a manager's inbox, gets a verbal yes within the day, and turns into a promise nobody checked against anything. Under ShipSprint, it lands in the marketing board's triage inbox first: visible, but not yet real work.

Whoever reviews triage checks it against what's actually true: the design column already has three cards in it against a WIP limit of four, and of the two people who'd normally take this, one is on approved leave next week. That's not a guess. It's the same capacity number the scheduling view uses. The request either gets a slot this sprint or it waits for the next one, and everyone can see which, and why.

Once it's accepted, it becomes one card: title, owner, column, due date. The plan for the referral program is that card and nothing else. No separate roadmap slide to keep updated in parallel, no second copy of the same information drifting out of sync with the first.

If the campaign date turns out to be unrealistic once the card is moving, that shows up later as a forecast risk, not as a planning failure, because planning's job was done the moment the card existed with a real owner and a real slot.

Where planning ends and the board takes over

Once a request clears triage and fits inside a column's WIP limit, it becomes a card with an owner and a place in the sequence. From that point, what happens to it is a tracking question, not a planning one. The card moves, hours get logged against it, and its expected date comes from the team's measured pace rather than the plan's original guess.

That handoff matters because plans get written once and reality happens every day after. ShipSprint doesn't try to keep the plan "up to date." It lets the plan hand off to a live board and stops pretending the document is still the source of truth. In practice that's the part teams notice first when they move onto ShipSprint: the roadmap slide stops being a separate chore, because the board already is the roadmap.

Why triage beats a request form

Plenty of tools offer an "intake form" for new requests: a structured alternative to a Slack message, with dropdowns for priority and a text box for details. It's a real improvement over nothing, but it usually just moves the chaos one step downstream. The form fills a queue that still gets triaged manually, in a spreadsheet, by whoever has time.

ShipSprint's triage inbox is the queue itself, not a form that feeds one. A request sits there as a real object the board understands. It can be compared directly against the column it would land in and the capacity of the people who'd take it, because those are numbers the same system already tracks. There's no export, no copy-paste into a planning tool, no second place where the decision actually gets made.

That matters most for the requests that would otherwise get informally fast-tracked: the "quick favour" that skips the queue because asking felt easier than filing a form. In ShipSprint, quick favours go through triage too, because there's nowhere else for a request to land.

What it costs to run planning this way

• Free runs the whole workflow (triage inbox, WIP limits, wiki) for up to 5 users and 2 projects, no time limit.
• Team is ₹299 per user per month (₹2,899 a year) and covers up to 40 users; Business adds forecasting once sprints are underway, at ₹599 per user per month or ₹6,499 a year.
• Every paid plan opens with a 14-day trial on full Business access, a sample project already loaded, no card required. See the full breakdown on pricing.

Ask it what's actually planned

Because ShipSprint connects to Claude and ChatGPT, you can ask the workspace directly, things like "what's queued in triage for design?" or "does the March sprint have room for this?", and get an answer from the live plan rather than whoever last updated a spreadsheet.

Every workspace is a separate tenant with its own data, two-factor login available to everyone, and a full export to JSON whenever you want one. Details are on security.