Project Management Software for Software Development Teams in Manchester
Manchester's software and digital scene, from MediaCityUK to the studios around the Northern Quarter, grew up without needing London. ShipSprint's boards grow up without needing anyone to remember to drag a card.
A graduate joins the team faster than the board keeps up
Manchester's tech and digital sector runs on a steady flow of graduates from the city's universities staying local, joining small and mid-sized product and agency teams rather than moving south. A new engineer picks up the sprint routine fast enough, cards, columns, a daily stand-up, but the board itself tends to lag behind reality within a couple of sprints. Someone finishes a piece of work, moves straight to the next thing, and the card sits in "in progress" until somebody notices at the next stand-up.
That's not a discipline problem, it's a structural one. Manually dragging a card is an extra step layered on top of the actual work, and the busier a sprint gets, the more often that step gets skipped. A burndown chart built from those skipped updates ends up telling you less about the sprint than a rough guess would.
ShipSprint ties the board to GitHub directly. A branch tied to a card moves that card the moment work starts. A merged pull request closes it. Burndown and cycle-time analytics build themselves from that merge history, so a studio head or team lead can trust the chart without cross-checking it against the repo first.
Built around merge history, not memory
A board that reflects the codebase doesn't need a new graduate hire to learn a reporting culture before they can be trusted to update it correctly.
Open a branch tied to a card and it advances on the board on its own, no drag required to show work is under way.
A merged pull request closes its card automatically, so a card sitting in "done" means the code actually shipped.
Burndown and cycle-time charts are calculated from actual merge history, not from status fields someone remembered to click.
Per-column WIP limits and a triage inbox mean new requests land somewhere visible rather than in an engineer's messages.
Delivery forecasts are calculated from the team's own completed sprints, so a date at risk shows up weeks early rather than on the day it's due.
A sprint review that doesn't start with "let me check"
A lot of sprint reviews open with someone reconciling the board against the repo before the actual conversation can start, especially when contractors and freelancers, common across Manchester's digital and media scene, move between projects on their own schedule. When the board updates itself from GitHub, that reconciliation step disappears, whether the person who did the work is a permanent staffer or a freelancer who joined the sprint two days ago.
A built-in wiki sits next to the board for the reasoning a burndown chart can't show: why an architecture choice got made, why an approach was ruled out. Page history means that reasoning survives past the person who wrote it, 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 incorporated, not a claim about local presence in Manchester or the UK.
Questions from Manchester dev teams
Yes. Because the board takes its status from GitHub branches and merged pull requests rather than from someone remembering to update a field, a contractor joining mid-sprint shows up correctly on the burndown the moment their branch merges, without needing to be walked through a reporting process first.
No. There's no screenshot capture, no keystroke logging and no activity tracking. Only delivered work and hours logged by the person themselves, visible on their own scorecard and adjusted for approved leave.
ShipSprint is built by an Indian company and charges in INR, converted by your bank or card provider at their standard rate when the charge goes through. There's no VAT charged or handled on our end, so it's worth checking with your accountant how that fits your own filing.
Free for up to five people, permanently, with two projects. Team is ₹299 per user per month, up to 40 users. Business is ₹599 per user per month, adding forecasts, scorecards and the owner command center, with unlimited projects. Every paid plan opens with a 14-day full-access trial, no card required. Details are on the pricing page.
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