Project Management Software for Software Development Teams in Birmingham
For Birmingham development teams whose board says one thing and whose repository says another. How ShipSprint takes card status from GitHub, and what to know before buying from a company based in India.
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The board that drifts from the code
The usual failure is quiet. A developer finishes a task, starts the next, and the card stays in "in progress" because dragging it across wasn't the priority. A week later the board describes what people remembered to update, not what was built, and the sprint review opens with ten minutes of reconciling cards against merged pull requests.
It gets harder when the development team sits inside a larger business. The people asking for dates are in operations or finance, they don't read GitHub, and they take the board at its word.
On Team and up, ShipSprint closes the gap at the source. Opening a branch linked to a card moves it. Merging the pull request closes it. The board reflects the repository, so the review can start with the work rather than the bookkeeping.
Mechanics that keep the sprint honest
Each of these removes a manual step a developer would otherwise skip.
On Team and up, a branch tied to a card shows work has started without anyone touching the board.
A merged pull request closes its card, so "done" means merged.
Limits on each column make a stuck review queue visible before it becomes the whole sprint.
Requests from the rest of the business land in one inbox and get prioritised, instead of arriving as a direct message to whichever developer seems friendliest.
On Business, delivery dates are recalculated from measured velocity whenever a sprint closes.
Decisions, assistants and the time log
A sprint chart can't tell you why the team chose one approach over another three months ago. The built-in wiki can, with page history, and any sentence on a page can become a task. A decision made in the middle of a review turns into work without being retyped somewhere else.
On Team and Business, developers can reach the workspace from Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, Claude or ChatGPT over MCP: check what's assigned, update a task, or ask what's blocked, without leaving the editor. The assistant acts with that developer's own permissions. On Business, each assistant action is written to the workspace audit log.
If your business needs hours against projects, logging on Team and up takes about five seconds beside the task just closed, and a missed day prompts the developer, not their lead. There are no screenshots, no keystroke logging and no activity tracking.
Capacity planning on Team and up counts approved leave. Sprints that cross the UK bank holiday weekends, Easter or Christmas to New Year should be planned for the people who will actually be at work.
Using ShipSprint from Birmingham: what a dev lead should know
Who you're buying from. ShipSprint is developed by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd. in Hyderabad, India. It has no office or local entity in the UK, and support runs over email and in-app chat.
Time zones. IST is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of Birmingham in winter and 4 hours 30 minutes ahead in summer. If you hit a problem connecting GitHub, send it with the details attached; replies usually come the same working day, Indian time.
Billing. Seats are charged per user in Indian rupees via Razorpay, and your bank does the conversion to pounds. VAT on a service from overseas is a question for your accountant.
Data protection. Issue text, commit messages and wiki pages can contain personal data, which brings in the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Check the sub-processor list and the security overview against your obligations, and against any client contract if you build software for others.
Questions from Birmingham dev teams
They move the normal way, by hand. Spikes, planning tasks and design work sit on the same board as code changes; only the cards linked to a branch follow GitHub.
Team or Business. The Free plan is core boards only, for up to 5 users and 2 projects. GitHub integration starts on Team, and the 14-day Business trial includes it if you want to test it on a real repository first.
No. Code, reviews and pull requests stay in GitHub. ShipSprint follows them so the board stays accurate.
Every workspace is an isolated tenant and every user can use two-factor authentication. Business adds sign-in with Google or Microsoft and the workspace audit log. See the pricing page for what each plan includes.
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