Project Management Software for Technology Startups in Canberra

Building the product and the bid at once

For a small company in Canberra, the first big customer may well be a government agency or one of its suppliers. That means the founders are writing a tender response, answering a security questionnaire and building the product in the same month, with three or four people.

All of it is project work with deadlines. The bid has sections and owners and a hard close date. The product has a sprint. The hiring plan has candidates. A tool that handles only one of these leaves the rest in a spreadsheet.

ShipSprint puts them in one workspace, with templates for engineering, HR, marketing and operations on the same subscription. The Free plan covers the core boards for up to 5 users and 2 projects, with every template and no time limit. Team, at ₹299 per user per month, adds time tracking, GitHub integration, capacity planning and AI assistant access. Business, at ₹599, adds forecasts, scorecards, the command center and the audit log.

Being honest with your own buyers

If your customer is an agency, they may ask which tools you use and what those tools hold. Be clear on this: ShipSprint holds no Australian government security accreditation, so don't put a customer's data in it if your contract requires an accredited system. For your own planning, bids and product work, what you can tell a buyer is that every workspace is an isolated tenant, every user can use two-factor authentication, the sub-processors are listed publicly, and the whole workspace exports as JSON.

Day to day, everyone starts on a "my day" screen: today's items, a one-tap time log and an "I'm blocked" button that brings in the right person with context. In a four-person company, that's often the founder who is also writing the bid. There's no monitoring of any kind: no screenshots, keystroke logging or activity tracking.

Capacity planning on Team and up counts leave and public holidays. In Australia the Christmas to late-January summer break and Easter take out a lot of a small team, and public holidays differ by state; the ACT has some of its own. Tender close dates don't always allow for any of that, so it helps to see the gap early.

From Canberra: buying from an Indian company

Who you're buying from. Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd. makes ShipSprint in Hyderabad, India. There's no office or local entity in Australia; paid plans are supported by email and in-app chat, and Free has community support.

Time zones. IST is 5 hours 30 minutes behind Canberra in summer and 4 hours 30 minutes behind in winter. Our day starts in your afternoon, and replies usually come the same Indian working day.

Billing. Seats are charged in Indian rupees through Razorpay, and your bank converts the charge to Australian dollars. Ask your accountant how GST applies to a service bought from overseas.

Data protection. Once you hold personal information about users or pilot customers, the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles may apply. Check the sub-processor list and the security overview against your obligations and any contracts you've signed.