Project Management Software for Software Development Teams in Leeds
For Leeds development teams with plenty started and too little finished. How ShipSprint uses WIP limits, blockers and GitHub to keep work flowing and stakeholders informed, and what to know before buying from an Indian vendor.
- 14-day full-access trial
- No card required
- 7-day refund on paid plans
Too much started, not enough finished
Look at most development boards halfway through a sprint and the pattern is the same: a long "in progress" column, a longer "in review" column, and very little in "done". Everyone is busy. Each developer has three things on the go because the first one is waiting for a review and the second is waiting for an answer from somebody outside the team.
Starting more work feels productive, but it makes everything slower. Context switching eats the day, reviews queue up, and the sprint ends with a pile of nearly finished cards.
ShipSprint's boards have per-column WIP limits. Set "in review" to a number the team can actually get through, and when it's full the board makes it plain: the next useful thing to do is review someone else's pull request, not open a new branch. It's a small rule that changes the shape of a sprint quickly.
Getting unstuck in one tap
The other half of the problem is waiting. A developer needs an API key, a decision from product, or a test environment someone else controls. They send a message, it sits in a channel, and they start something else while they wait.
On the "my day" screen, an "I'm blocked" button pulls in the person who can clear it, with the card and its context attached. On Team and up, out-of-office makes it clear who is away, so nobody waits on a person who isn't in this week.
On Team and up the board also follows GitHub. Branches move cards and merged pull requests close them, so the columns reflect the repository without anyone dragging cards around.
Keeping everyone outside the team informed
Stakeholders ask for status meetings when they can't find the status. These cut down the asking.
On Team and up, email digests let a product owner keep up with the work without opening the board every day.
The triage inbox collects requests from the rest of the business, and the team decides what comes into the sprint.
On Team and up, Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and Antigravity connect over MCP and answer questions about the work within each user's permissions.
On Business, delivery forecasts use the team's measured velocity as sprints close, which is easier to defend than a guess.
Technical decisions in the built-in wiki, with page history; any sentence in them can become a task.
Honest capacity, no surveillance
A sprint planned for full attendance rarely survives the bank holiday weekends, Easter or Christmas to New Year. Capacity planning on Team and up counts approved leave and public holidays, so the commitment matches the people who will actually be there.
None of this relies on watching developers. There are no screenshots, no keystroke logging and no activity tracking. On Business, scorecards are built from delivered work and self-logged hours, adjusted for leave, and each developer can see their own.
Buying from Leeds: what to know first
Who you're buying from. ShipSprint is developed by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd. in Hyderabad, India. There's no office or local entity in the UK; support is provided over email and in-app chat.
Time zones. IST is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of Leeds in winter and 4 hours 30 minutes ahead in summer. Support replies usually arrive the same working day, Indian time, so a question about the GitHub connection sent in the morning is the one that gets answered soonest.
Billing. Billing is per seat, in Indian rupees, through Razorpay, and your bank converts it to pounds. The VAT position on a service bought from abroad is for your accountant to confirm.
Data protection. Error logs and bug reports can carry personal data, which brings in the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Check the sub-processor list and the security overview against those obligations and your contracts before pasting any into a card.
Questions from Leeds development teams
Yes. WIP limits are set per column, so "in progress" and "in review" can each have their own.
Sprints are there if you use them. Delivery forecasts on Business are calculated as sprints close, so teams that want forecasts will want sprints.
Team and Business. You can test it during the 14-day Business trial; the Free plan is core boards only.
No. An assistant acts with the permissions of the person using it. On Business, its actions are recorded in the audit log.
₹599 per user per month, or ₹6,499 per user per year. Any paid charge is refunded in full within 7 days. See the pricing page.
Keep reading
Software development teams in other cities
See it on your own work.
A workspace your whole company will actually use is 60 seconds away. No card, no risk, nothing to install.
- 14-day full-access trial
- Sample project included
- No card required
- 7-day refund on paid plans
Try ShipSprint free for 14 days. No card required.
Start free trial