Project Management Software for Software Development Teams in Osaka

A board that drifts from the code

A card that says "In progress" three days after the work stalled isn't dishonest. It's just a board that depends on people remembering to update it, and over a sprint the gap between the board and the repository grows. By the review, the burndown reflects who updated their cards rather than what shipped.

ShipSprint removes the manual step. On Team and up, opening a GitHub branch for a task moves its card, and merging the pull request closes it. "Done" means the code was merged, and the board matches the repository without anyone dragging cards.

Per-column WIP limits keep work moving. When review is full, the board says so, and the team finishes something before starting the next thing.

Engineering inside a company that isn't a software company

If you're the software team at a manufacturer, a distributor or a services firm, most of your requests come from colleagues in other departments, by phone, by email, or in person. Without a single entry point, the loudest request wins and nobody can see what's waiting.

ShipSprint's triage inbox gives those requests one place to land. Someone on the team decides what gets scheduled and tells the requester, and the work then moves on the board like any other task. The departments sending requests can use their own templates (operations, HR, marketing) in the same workspace, on the same subscription.

When a colleague asks "is my request done?", the board answers. On Business, the owner command center shows management the software team's work next to everyone else's, without a separate report.

Sprints across the long holidays

Golden Week in late April and early May, Obon in mid-August and the New Year holidays each take a large share of the team out at once. Capacity planning on Team and up counts approved leave, out-of-office and public holidays, so a sprint that spans one of those breaks is planned on the people who'll be there.

Time logging takes about five seconds beside the finished task, and a missed day reminds the developer, not their manager. There are no screenshots, keystroke logs or activity tracking. On Business, scorecards are adjusted for approved leave and visible to the developer they describe.

Using ShipSprint from Osaka: four checks

Who you're buying from. Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd. builds ShipSprint in Hyderabad, India. There's no office or local entity in Japan, and support is by email and in-app chat.

Time zones. IST is 3 hours 30 minutes behind Osaka, and the gap stays the same all year. A GitHub setup question sent in your morning reaches us as our day starts and usually gets a same-day reply; include the repository and error text to save a round trip.

Billing. Seats are billed in Indian rupees through Razorpay, and your bank converts the charge to yen. Your accountant can say how consumption tax applies to a service bought from abroad.

Data protection. Customer or employee details in bug reports are personal information under the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI). Read the sub-processor list and the security overview, and check them against your obligations and any client contracts.