Sprint health, velocity tracking, and team capacity —
built for Scrum governance.
Effigate gives Scrum Masters the tools to run structured sprints, monitor team health, facilitate poker planning, capture retrospectives, and track velocity — all without stitching together separate tools.
Stop running sprints from spreadsheets and post-it notes
Scrum Masters need ceremony support, health metrics, and capacity visibility in one place. When tools are fragmented, sprint governance suffers and team health data becomes anecdotal.
Velocity guesswork
Without tracked velocity history, sprint commitments are based on gut feel rather than the team's proven throughput.
Ad-hoc retrospectives
Retrospective outcomes get lost in meeting notes rather than structured records that feed future sprint planning.
Capacity overcommitment
Teams commit to more points than their capacity supports because availability data is not visible at sprint planning time.
Scattered sprint metrics
Burn-down charts, completion rates, and SLA health live in separate tools, making sprint review preparation a manual exercise.
Monitor sprint health in real time — not at the review
Sprint health in Effigate is visible throughout the sprint, not just at the end. Burn-down progress, completion rates, task status distribution, and SLA indicators give Scrum Masters an early warning system for at-risk sprints.
- Real-time burn-down chart updated as tasks are completed and time is logged
- Sprint health indicators surface at-risk items with remaining days in context
- Task status distribution shows how many items are in each workflow state
- Velocity comparison against the last three sprints gives predictability context
- SLA health visible alongside sprint delivery data for combined service and delivery oversight
Outcome
89% forecast accuracy
37.8
Avg Velocity
94%
Completion
3%
Scope Change
One board for sprint execution — one backlog for future planning
The Effigate sprint board provides a clean execution view for the active sprint, while the backlog holds refined stories ready for the next planning session. Scrum Masters can manage both without switching tools or exporting data.
- Configurable sprint board columns matched to the team's Scrum workflow
- Backlog organised by epic with estimation, priority, and dependency visibility
- Drag-and-drop story selection from backlog into sprint scope
- Sprint capacity meter prevents overcommitment during backlog selection
- Mid-sprint backlog additions tracked separately to preserve original sprint scope integrity
Auth flow
API rate limits
Dashboard widget
Sprint board UI
Epic details page
Login page
DB schema
CI pipeline
Structured ceremonies that improve every sprint cycle
Effigate supports the two most impactful Scrum ceremonies: retrospectives and poker planning. Retrospective outcomes are recorded against the sprint and inform the next planning cycle. Poker planning brings the full team into estimation with real-time collaborative voting.
- Sprint retrospective form captures what went well, what to improve, and action items
- Retrospective outcomes stored against the sprint for trend analysis across cycles
- Poker planning session with facilitator controls and real-time team card reveal
- Agreed estimates applied directly to backlog stories — no manual re-entry
- Planning and retrospective history accessible to the Scrum Master at any time
User auth flow
CSV export
Rate card UI
SLA timer
Sprint board
Login page
DB schema
Questions from Scrum Masters
Sprint health is monitored continuously with a real-time burn-down chart, task status distribution, and velocity comparison against recent sprints. At-risk items are surfaced with remaining sprint days in context, giving Scrum Masters early warning before the review meeting.
Velocity is tracked automatically from sprint completion data. Completed story points per sprint are recorded and displayed as a trend line, giving Scrum Masters and teams a data-based foundation for future sprint commitment decisions.
Retrospective forms are attached to each sprint and capture structured feedback (what went well, what to improve, action items). Outcomes are stored against the sprint record and can be reviewed alongside velocity and health data to identify patterns across cycles.
Yes. Effigate has a dedicated poker planning module where the facilitator (usually the Scrum Master) controls the session, team members vote with story point cards, and the reveal is managed in real time. Agreed estimates are applied directly to backlog stories without manual re-entry.
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