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Project Management Software for Software Development Teams in Barcelona

A lean Poblenou engineering team doesn't have a spare project manager to reconcile a sprint board against what actually shipped, and it shouldn't need one.

An engineering team with no slack for a board nobody trusts

22@ was once the textile and manufacturing heart of Poblenou, brick chimneys and warehouse floors rezoned at the turn of the millennium into one of southern Europe's denser concentrations of technology companies. Barcelona engineering teams tend to be lean by necessity, not by choice, competing for the same pool of talent that Mobile World Congress brings through Fira Gran Via every year, which means there's rarely a dedicated project manager whose job is keeping a sprint board honest. When that job falls to whoever has five spare minutes, it doesn't get done reliably.

The cost shows up at the worst moment: a sprint review where the first ten minutes go to reconciling what the board says against what the repository actually shows, because three cards sat in "in progress" days after their branches merged. On a twelve-person team, that's not a minor inefficiency, it's a meaningful fraction of the room's attention spent on bookkeeping instead of the work.

ShipSprint removes the bookkeeping. A GitHub branch tied to a card advances it automatically, and a merged pull request closes it, so the burndown and cycle-time analytics a Barcelona team pulls up before a sprint review are already correct, built from real merge history rather than from whoever remembered to update a field.

0manual card moves needed once a branch is tied to a task
₹599per user per month on Business, billed in rupees
5users free on the Free plan, no time limit
14day full-access trial on Business, no card needed
Built on the repository, not on memory

What actually keeps the board honest

Branches move cards

Opening a branch tied to a task advances it on the board automatically, no manual drag required from a team that's already stretched across every function it runs.

Merges close cards

A merged pull request closes its card by itself, so "done" always means the code actually shipped, without anyone spending time confirming it.

Burndown from real merge history

Burndown and cycle-time charts build themselves from commit and merge activity, giving a ten-person team the same accuracy a much bigger one would get from a dedicated project manager.

Forecasts from measured velocity

Delivery forecasts recalculate from the team's own pace as sprints close, so a date drifting off track surfaces weeks before a founder or client asks about it.

A backlog that respects real capacity

Boards carry per-column WIP limits, so a small team can see clearly when it's taken on more than it can move, with no second team to absorb the overflow.

A sprint review that starts with the merge log, not a guess

A sprint review that opens with someone cross-checking the board against the repository is a review where the actual conversation, what's blocked, what the trend supports, doesn't start until ten minutes in. When burndown is already built from merge history, the review starts with the real picture immediately, which matters most on a lean team where every meeting is competing directly with time that could go into the code itself.

Barcelona's tech scene grew out of a startup culture rather than a corporate one, and that shows up in how little patience a team here has for a tool that adds steps rather than removing them. A board that stays accurate without anyone maintaining it by hand fits that instinct directly, one less process a small team has to invent and enforce on its own.

ShipSprint is built by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd., based in India, and billed per seat in rupees with annual billing available. That's a plain fact about the company, not a claim of a Spanish or EU entity, and worth knowing before a team commits to it. Every ShipSprint workspace is an isolated tenant, two-factor authentication is available to every user, and admin actions are logged.

FAQ

Questions from Barcelona dev teams

Yes, because it never depends on someone maintaining it. Cards move and close from real branch and merge activity, so a ten-person team gets the same accuracy a larger team with a dedicated project manager would get, without needing one.

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