Project Management Software for Software Development Teams in Manama

The board says one thing, the repository another

Most engineering teams know the feeling. A card says “in progress” for a feature that was merged on Tuesday, and another says “done” for something still waiting on review. The lead spends the stand-up reconciling the two, and anyone outside engineering who looks at the board gets the wrong picture.

On Team and up, ShipSprint takes its cues from GitHub. Creating a branch for a task moves its card, and merging the pull request closes it. The board stops being a second place to keep up to date and becomes a view of what the code is doing.

That matters more when your work is reviewed by people outside the team. If a client in the finance sector later asks when a change went live, the closed card is tied to the merged pull request, and on Business the workspace audit log adds a record of who did what in the workspace.

Assistants that work inside your permissions

On Team and Business, Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and Antigravity connect to the workspace over MCP. From the editor, a developer can ask what’s assigned to them, pick up a task’s details or update its status. The assistant acts with that developer’s own permissions, nothing more. On Business, every assistant action appears in the audit log alongside everything else.

The product doesn’t watch developers. There are no screenshots, no keystroke logs and no activity tracking. On Business, scorecards are built from delivered work and self-logged hours, adjusted for approved leave, and the developer can see their own.

Sprint planning on a Sunday-to-Thursday week

Teams here usually work Sunday to Thursday, so a two-week sprint runs across two of those weeks, and sprint reviews belong on a Thursday, not a Friday. If you also work with developers or clients on a Monday-to-Friday week, put the shared days in the team wiki so handovers don’t fall into the gap.

Capacity planning on Team and up counts approved leave and public holidays. That covers the Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha breaks, which move about eleven days earlier each year, and it helps in Ramadan, when working hours are often shorter. On Business, forecasts follow measured velocity as sprints close, so a lighter sprint during Ramadan moves the projected date honestly instead of hiding behind the original plan.

Using ShipSprint from Manama: four things to check

Who you’re buying from. ShipSprint belongs to Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd. in Hyderabad, India. There is no office or local entity in Bahrain. Support is handled by email and in-app chat.

Time zones. IST is 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of Manama, and the gap never changes because neither side uses daylight saving. A setup question raised in your morning reaches India around midday there, and replies usually come the same working day, Indian time.

Billing. Plans are priced per user in Indian rupees and charged through Razorpay, with your bank converting the amount. Your accountant can tell you how Bahraini VAT applies to a service from outside the country.

Data protection. Bahrain’s Personal Data Protection Law (Law No. 30 of 2018) applies to personal data your team handles, including anything pasted into a bug report. Go through the sub-processor list and the security overview against that law and any client contract first.