Project Management Software for Software Development Teams in Muscat

A board nobody has to remember to update

Most developers have worked on a team where the board was a weekly chore. Cards stay in "in progress" long after the code merged, and someone spends the start of every review moving them into place. Once the board is known to be stale, people stop looking at it and start messaging each other, which is exactly the interruption a board was meant to prevent.

On Team and up, ShipSprint takes its state from GitHub. A branch for a task moves the card, and a merged pull request closes it. What the board shows is what the repository shows.

Per-column WIP limits make bottlenecks obvious. If code review is backing up, the column says so, and the team can finish reviews before pulling in new work.

Sprint capacity in Ramadan and around the Eids

Sprint planning goes wrong when it assumes every sprint has the same capacity. In Oman the week runs Sunday to Thursday, Ramadan often means shorter working hours, and the Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha holidays come about eleven days earlier each year. A two-week sprint that overlaps an Eid has fewer working days than the one before it.

Capacity planning on Team and up counts approved leave, out-of-office and public holidays, so the sprint is planned on the time people will actually be at work. On Business, delivery forecasts are recalculated from measured velocity as each sprint closes. If Ramadan sprints move more slowly, the forecast reflects it, and the lead can explain a date change with numbers rather than a feeling.

Measured on work, not on screens

There are no screenshots, keystroke logs or activity tracking in ShipSprint. Time reminders, where a team uses them, go to the developer and not to their manager. Business scorecards are built from delivered work and the hours people log, adjusted for approved leave, and every developer can see their own.

Using ShipSprint from Muscat: the essentials

Who you're buying from. Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd., based in Hyderabad, India, makes ShipSprint. It has no office or local entity in Oman. Support works through email and in-app chat.

Time zones. IST is 1 hour 30 minutes ahead of Muscat year-round. When you hit a problem setting up the GitHub connection, you're likely to reach us while we're working, and replies usually come the same working day, Indian time.

Billing. We charge per seat in Indian rupees through Razorpay; the bank converts to rials. Omani VAT on a service bought from abroad is for your accountant to advise on.

Data protection. Oman's Personal Data Protection Law (Royal Decree 6/2022) applies if bug reports or logs carry users' personal data. Review the sub-processor list and the security overview against your obligations and any client contracts.