Project Management Software for Software Development Teams in Cambridge
Silicon Fen turns research into companies fast, and a lot of those companies start as three engineers and a founder. ShipSprint's boards keep the burndown honest even when nobody has time to update a status field.
A four-person engineering team has no slack for a status ritual
A Cambridge spinout's engineering team, often no more than three or four people pulled straight from a research group, doesn't have the headcount to spare someone for sprint admin. The card-dragging ritual that a bigger team might tolerate as overhead gets skipped the moment things get busy, and in an early spinout, things are busy constantly. A card sits in "in progress" long after the branch behind it has moved on, and the burndown chart quietly stops meaning anything.
That matters more here than at a larger company, because a burndown chart in a Cambridge spinout is often the thing a founder shows an investor or a grant body to answer "is this actually on track." A chart built on stale manual updates isn't just an internal inconvenience, it's a bad answer to a question that gets asked with real money attached.
ShipSprint's engineering boards take their status from GitHub directly. A branch tied to a card advances it automatically. A merged pull request closes it. Burndown and cycle-time analytics build themselves from that merge history, so the chart a founder pulls up for a milestone review is accurate without anyone having spent time keeping it that way.
Built around merge history, not memory
For a team this small, every mechanic here removes a task nobody has time to do manually.
Open a branch tied to a card and it advances on the board on its own, with no drag required from a team that's already stretched thin.
A merged pull request closes its card automatically, so a founder checking the board sees what actually shipped, not what someone meant to update.
Burndown and cycle-time analytics are calculated from actual merge history, a real answer for a milestone review rather than a guess.
Per-column WIP limits keep a small team honest about how much is genuinely in flight, which matters more with three engineers than with thirty.
Delivery forecasts are calculated from the team's own measured pace, so a date drifting off track shows up weeks before a review, not during it.
A sprint review that doesn't start with "let me check"
A lot of small spinout teams spend the first ten minutes of any review reconciling the board against the repo before the real conversation, what's actually built, what's next, can start. When the board takes its status straight from GitHub, that reconciliation disappears, and the ten minutes go to the work instead.
A built-in wiki keeps the reasoning that a burndown chart can't capture: why an architecture decision got made a particular way, why an approach was ruled out. That matters especially at a spinout, where the two people who remember why usually leave the room, or the company, within the year. Page history keeps that reasoning intact, and any sentence on a wiki page can become a task directly.
ShipSprint is built by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd., registered in India, and billed in rupees. That's a fact about where the company is based, not a claim about UK presence or local support hours.
Questions from Cambridge dev teams
It's calculated directly from merge history. As branches tied to cards get merged, the burndown updates on its own, so the chart a founder pulls up for a grant or investor update reflects what the codebase actually shows, not what someone remembered to click on the board.
No. There are no screenshots, no keystroke logging and no activity tracking of any kind. Time logging exists so a person can record their own hours in about five seconds, and only the person it describes sees their own scorecard by default.
Not a problem, just a fact worth knowing upfront: ShipSprint is built by an India-based company, Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd., and charges are processed in INR, converted by your card provider at their rate at the time. There's no VAT added or handled on our end, so check with whoever does your books on how that's treated for a grant-funded or early-stage entity.
Free, forever, for up to five users and two projects, which covers a lot of early-stage spinouts outright. Past that, Team is ₹299 per user per month, and Business is ₹599, adding forecasts and the founder's command center. Every paid plan opens with a 14-day full-access trial, no card required. Details are on the pricing page.
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