Project Management for Developers
Not a tool your manager uses to watch you. A tool you open because it's faster than not opening it, status comes from your commits, not from you typing an update.
Your day, not your manager's dashboard
You already know what most project tools are for. They're for the person one level up who wants a screen full of everyone's status. You get asked to feed that screen, usually by typing a sentence that says roughly what your last three commits already said.
ShipSprint starts from a different question: what does the actual page you open at 9am need to do for you? Not for your manager, not for the PMO, for you, five minutes after coffee, trying to remember what you were mid-way through yesterday.
The answer is a "my day" screen: your tasks for today, nothing else competing for attention, a time log that takes one tap, and a second tap, "I'm blocked," that pulls in whoever can unblock you with the context already attached, instead of you writing a Slack message and waiting.
None of this requires you to change how you work. You still write code, push branches, open pull requests the way you already do. The difference is that those actions now do double duty, they're also the update everyone else was going to ask you for, generated as a side effect instead of as a separate chore bolted onto the end of your day.
What changes on your actual day
Every one of these exists to remove a step you currently do by hand.
Push a branch named after the task and the card moves itself. Merge the pull request and the card closes. Nobody asks you to update a status field, because the status field updates from what you already did in git.
Time logging sits right next to the task you just finished, tap, done. If you skip a day, the nudge comes to you, not a report to your manager about you. It's a personal habit tool, not a surveillance line item.
No drafting a message, no deciding who to ping. One tap surfaces the block with the task and context attached to the right person, and you go back to something else instead of watching a chat window.
Columns carry per-column WIP limits, so a lead can't quietly stack twelve "in progress" tasks on you at once. New requests land in a triage inbox first, not straight into your list.
Burndown and cycle-time analytics are visible, not locked in a manager-only report, so when you say a class of task is taking longer than it should, you've got the numbers, not a feeling.
No keystroke logging, no activity tracking, no idle timer. What's measured is what shipped and the hours you logged yourself, nothing running in the background while you work.
The parts you'll actually notice in week one
- Open the app once in the morning, your day is already laid out, no digging through a backlog to find what's yours
- A branch push or merged PR moves and closes cards without you touching the board
- Logging yesterday's hours takes less time than reading this sentence
- Getting unblocked doesn't require writing a paragraph explaining what you need
- Your own scorecard is visible to you at any time, no surprise conversation in a review
Where the wiki fits in, even for daily work
You'll bump into the wiki even if you never mean to use it. A lead drops a decision on a page, links it from the task, and it's right there when you open the card, no separate doc to go hunting for, no "check the pinned message" archaeology in a channel with four hundred unread messages. Any line on that page can turn into a task on its own, so a stray note like "we should also handle the retry case" doesn't just sit there being true and ignored.
It's a small thing day to day, but it's the difference between a decision existing and a decision being findable six weeks later when you're the one touching that code again.
What happens when you push a branch
Say the task is named something like "Fix pagination bug on invoice list," you branch off that name, and the card on the board picks it up. It moves to "in progress" without you touching the board, because you're the one who started the work, and the system already knows that from the branch. You keep coding.
Open the pull request, and the card carries a link back to it, so a reviewer can jump from the task straight to the diff without you pasting a URL into a comment. Merge it, and the card closes. If the task needed a second pass, say a reviewer asked for changes, the card just sits open a bit longer, same as it would in real life. Nothing about this requires a naming convention beyond matching the task, and nothing about it requires you to remember to update anything after the fact.
The upside compounds for a lead trying to build a burndown chart or a cycle-time number, that data is a byproduct of you working normally, not a separate reporting layer someone has to maintain. Developers who've run a project through ShipSprint end to end tend to notice the same thing after a few sprints: standup gets shorter, because half of what used to get said out loud is already sitting on the board.
What ShipSprint costs you, specifically: nothing you don't already spend
Free covers up to 5 users and 2 projects, permanently, if you're trying this on a side project or a small team. Paid plans are per seat in rupees, billed monthly or annually, with GST-compliant invoices if your company's paying.
| Plan | Price | What you'd notice |
|---|---|---|
| Free | ₹0, 5 users, 2 projects | My-day screen, blocked flag, GitHub cards, forever |
| Team | ₹299/user/month or ₹2,899/year | Same daily flow, up to 40 people, unlimited projects |
| Business | ₹599/user/month or ₹6,499/year | Adds forecasts and the command center your lead uses |
Every paid plan starts with a 14-day full-access trial on Business, with a sample project preloaded so you can poke around before anyone decides it's worth paying for. No card required to start.
Common questions
Not in the sense you mean. There's no screenshot capture, no keystroke logging, no activity monitor running while you code. It tracks work outcomes, what got shipped, hours you logged yourself, and your scorecard is visible to you, not hidden in a manager's tab.
No, that's the point of the GitHub integration. A branch named for the task moves the card, a merged pull request closes it. The board reflects what you actually did instead of you narrating it separately.
It surfaces the block to the right person with the task and context already attached, no separate message to write, no explaining from scratch. You can keep working on something else while it routes.
For a single task, yes, it's a tap next to the item you just closed, not a separate timesheet screen. If a day goes unlogged, the reminder goes to you directly rather than becoming a line item your manager sees first.
Yes, 5 users and 2 projects, free forever, no trial clock. It's enough for a real side project or a small team deciding whether the daily flow fits before anyone pays for anything. See pricing for the paid tiers.
The board and the my-day screen work fine on their own, you can move cards manually and log time exactly the same way. The GitHub integration is what removes the manual step, so you'll want it connected if that's where your code lives, but it isn't a requirement to use the rest of the product.
Yes, ShipSprint connects to Claude and ChatGPT, so "what's still open on the payments card" or "log four hours against yesterday's bug fix" is a sentence instead of a few clicks through menus.
The linking is based on matching the task reference in the branch or pull request, so a close naming convention is what makes it automatic. If a branch doesn't match anything, the card just stays where it was, you can always move it manually, the same as before you connected GitHub at all.
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