Project Management Software for Software Development Teams in Oxford
Oxford's biotech and life sciences spinouts, many working out of the Oxford Science Park, run engineering on much shorter cycles than the publishing houses across town. ShipSprint's boards track what merged, not what someone remembered to update.
A postdoc turned engineer moves faster than the board does
An Oxford spinout's engineering team is often built around people who moved from a lab into code without a long software career behind them, working on fast, experimental sprint cycles at premises like the Oxford Science Park or Begbroke. That background is a strength for the actual work and a weakness for board discipline: the habit of stopping mid-task to drag a card across a column isn't second nature yet, and it's usually the first thing to slip when a sprint gets tight.
The result is a familiar pattern: a card sits in "in progress" days after the branch behind it merged, because nobody circled back to move it. A burndown chart built on that kind of lag tells a lead less about the sprint than the raw commit log would.
ShipSprint removes the step rather than asking people to remember it better. A branch tied to a card moves the card the moment work starts. A merged pull request closes it. Burndown and cycle-time analytics build themselves from that merge history, so the chart in a review reflects the actual codebase, not the state of everyone's memory that week.
Built around merge history, not memory
Mechanics that don't rely on a team fresh out of a research lab learning a new reporting habit under pressure.
Open a branch tied to a card and it advances on the board automatically, no drag required to show work has started.
A merged pull request closes its card on its own, so "done" on the board means the code shipped, not that someone remembered.
Burndown and cycle-time analytics are calculated from actual merge history, giving a founder or reviewer a real answer, not a status guess.
Per-column WIP limits keep a small, fast-moving team from quietly taking on more than it can finish inside an experimental sprint cycle.
Delivery forecasts are calculated from the team's own completed sprints, so a date at risk surfaces weeks before a milestone review, not during it.
A sprint review that doesn't start with "let me check"
The usual Oxford spinout review opens with someone comparing the board against the repo before the actual science or engineering conversation gets any airtime. When the board takes its status from GitHub directly, that comparison step disappears, and the review starts with the work itself.
A built-in wiki captures the reasoning a burndown chart never shows: why an experiment was designed a certain way, why an architecture decision got made. That matters specifically at a spinout with a lot of fixed-term contracts, where the person who remembers a decision is often gone within a year. Page history keeps that reasoning searchable, 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 where the company is based, not a claim about UK offices or local support hours.
Questions from Oxford dev teams
Mostly no, because the board doesn't depend on remembering to update it. Once a branch is tied to a card, the mechanics happen on their own as work moves through GitHub. Someone learning sprint conventions for the first time still ends up with an accurate burndown chart, since it isn't built from manual status updates in the first place.
No. There are no screenshots, no keystroke logging and no activity tracking. Time logging is self-reported and takes about five seconds, and scorecards are visible only to the person they describe, adjusted for approved leave.
Yes. ShipSprint is built by an India-based company, and every charge is processed in INR, converted at your card provider's rate on the day. There's no VAT charged or handled by us, so it's worth confirming with your accountant how that applies, particularly for grant-funded organisations.
Free for up to five users and two projects, permanently. Team is ₹299 per user per month, up to 40 users. Business is ₹599 per user per month, adding forecasts, the wiki's full history features and the owner command center. A 14-day full-access trial is included with every paid plan, no card needed. See the pricing page for the full breakdown.
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