Chordio - Lightweight sprint planner for remote development teams
Planning made easy. Accurately reflect workload and give everyone a voice to quickly align on a plan forward.
👋 Hi everyone! Ehud and Amit, co-founders of Chordio here. We previously co-founded Brand.ai to help designers and developers work better together. We sold the company to InVision in 2017 and worked on improving product team collaboration since. With Chordio, we’re looking to help teams at any size plan their work better.
Why we’re building Chordio
Existing tools focus on issue tracking, and underserve the upfront project planning needs. Prioritization, estimation, and capacity planning are commonly problems teams are left to struggle with. The transition to remote work made planning harder still, as planning had often started with a whiteboard huddle. The average project management tool doesn’t speak casual. It’s built for an official plan, due dates, and commitments.
That’s why over 80% of the teams we’ve talked with reach for a general-purpose solution like a spreadsheet for their planning activities. They then face a different set of problems: sweating over manual work, getting formulas wrong, dealing with random editors breaking fragile automations, accumulating massive backlogs, and losing sight of the source of truth among a sea of documents.
So, we’re building Chordio as the best of both worlds. A lightweight, collaborative tool with key planning features built-in.
How it works
Chordio lets you work at the right planning fidelity. Go from a casual brainstorm to evaluating rough plan outlines, to an official release plan. When you’re done, export the work to Jira or your issue tracking tool of choice. - Integrations are coming soon.
You can create any number of planning boards where you can specify a focus for the sprint, list features, provide estimates, and assign to people. As you assign tasks you’ll see the capacity graph of individuals getting updated so you can protect people’s time and ensure an optimal sprint scope.
Partner with us?
We’re looking for design partners. That is, companies that will pilot Chordio’s next major release and provide early feedback to guide our roadmap. If you’re running multiple projects and interested in improving upfront planning, and ongoing visibility into teams’ work at any level, let’s talk. Here’s a Calendly link to book some time.