Scrum batteries included
Stop losing...
- money and opportunities by building the wrong thing for your users.
- time by having to fight sluggish tools.
- team engagement and satisfaction with tedious and performative meetings.
- the ability to work cross-functionally due to inconsistent and balkanized processes.
Mevali is project management software built around user outcomes, Kanban flow, right-sized work, and native Scrum events that are fast, actionable, and pleasant. Mevali stays out of the way so teams can focus on users, design, and working together.
One coherent and easy-to-use application. No tedious configuration. No product certification required. No plugins to assemble. No proprietary philosophy or invented terminology to learn.
Batteries included means...
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Setup measured in minutes
Create a team, choose Scrum or Scrumban, add users and personas, and start building the backlog.
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Personas and Coins
Every item carries who benefits and what it is worth. User outcomes are emphasized throughout.
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Well-shaped stories
Who, What, Why, Worth, and acceptance criteria that can be entered and updated in seconds.
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Reshape work in seconds
Promote, demote, split, and merge items and then drag dependencies into place.
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Age-aware Kanban
Cards rise as they age, and alert when they exceed the 70th percentile.
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Native Scrum events
Grooming, planning, standup, review, and retrospective, built in.
Build the right thing for your users in the right order
Building the wrong thing is bad for users and bad for business. Building the nice-to-have before your killer feature is a gift to your competitors.
- Even if AI reduces building costs to zero, features must be designed, supported, and taught, and they consume valuable space in your users' minds and on their screens in perpetuity.
- Lower-value features can make it hard or even impossible for you to deliver the killer feature that earns you a competitive advantage because current design impacts future designs.
- When teams spend time on low-value features, they are not spending time on high-value features.
Product usage data suggests a large share of shipped features are rarely or never used. Pendo found that 80% of features in the average software product are rarely or never used, and its 2024 benchmarks found that 6.4% of features drive 80% of click volume. Pendo 2019. Pendo 2024.
You want a product that puts outcomes front and center.
Every story is connected to the persona that benefits most. Teams can see detailed human context behind an item with one click. Mevali introduces Coins: the Product Owner's estimate of user value, analogous to how story points estimate effort. Coins communicate value to the team so they are not just working down a work list.
Coins over Points is subjectively estimated user-value return on investment. It gives the team, and AI agents, a clear signal for prioritization. The team now has user outcomes as a first-class consideration.
Effective communication considers the audience. Effective product design knows its user. High-performing teams have always known the user and connected their work to meaning and purpose. AI has amplified this need. The biggest risk today isn't the cost to build a widget but that you should have built a gadget (or... nothing at all!).
Work at the right size, think at the right level
Don't lose the forest for the trees! Teams need to think at a larger scope than ever before. Other products tend to focus on the bottom-level increment of work so heavily that teams lose essential context when working. The unfortunate result is that teams tend to author oversized stories, and compensate with long task lists, because decomposing is hard and decomposed features are opaque. In Mevali, estimate and commit at the Story and Bug level while the application promotes thinking at the Feature level.
Feature composition often needs to evolve and Mevali is built for that - single click and drag/drop:
- Promote an oversized story to a feature, or acceptance criteria to stories.
- Demote a tiny story into acceptance criteria on another story to avoid paperwork.
- Split a story, or automatically put an existing story that is in progress into a feature.
- Drag/drop to declare intra-feature blockers (dependencies).
Mouse or keyboard. Drag when it is natural; use the keyboard when speed matters. Power users can author and reshape the backlog without leaving flow.
Mevali structures stories as Who, What, Why, Worth (Coins), Acceptance Criteria, and optional demo scripts. Structure helps story authors fall into the pit of success of writing actionable content (and avoiding blank canvas syndrome). It is also what makes the drag/drop operations possible, and (coming soon) what gets sent to AI agents. But don't let the structure fool you - Mevali stories can be created, edited, and reshaped in seconds.
Other products attempt to compensate for an under-designed story structure from 2005 by providing AI workflows to decompose larger blobs of text into smaller blobs of text. Meaningful content is buried alive in their backlogs, requiring users to open three to five tabs to understand context, and manipulation after creation remains tedious. While everyone else has a big blob of unstructured text for the most important information, they also tend to require engineers to fill out a laundry list of required fields so stories tend to be tedious to maintain while still managing to be underspecified! Mevali does the opposite of that: Who, What, and Worth are essential, Why is encouraged, and everything else can be skipped or added later.
See flow before it becomes a problem
Kanban is about flow, but you wouldn't guess that from other products. Mevali shows you where work is stuck, and when it stopped being normal.
- Age in column is shown directly on the card, with alerts when an item exceeds the 70th and 95th percentiles for comparable work.
- Working cards rise as they age, making older work harder to overlook.
- Work stuck in the pipeline is prominently shown during the Standup event so the team can decide what to do about it together.
- A Board Flow Analysis report is always available on the Kanban board to highlight flow metrics and issues.
Make the events useful
Native Scrum events are woven into Mevali so that they are fast, pleasant, and actionable. Teams get real value and remote team members stop surfing social media during meetings. Your team decides which events to run and how to run them, and can skip any of them.
Some people are abandoning meetings entirely because of waste, but this over-correction loses the value creation and risk protection gained from successful team communication. The solution is not to abandon meetings but to make them shorter, more pleasant, and ACTIONABLE - and Mevali has you covered.
During an event, Mevali shows the item the facilitator is looking at and makes active edits visible across the team. When someone starts editing an area, feature, story, bug, or acceptance criterion, everyone can see it.
Backlog changes appear for the whole team as they happen, without a save button or a pause in the conversation so the meeting does not devolve into one person screen-sharing while everyone else watches. One teammate can add some acceptance criterion, another can tighten the wording, and a third can move the item in the work breakdown structure, and the whole team sees it.
Grooming
Mevali's decomposition, recomposition, and drag-drop dependency tools eliminate precious minutes of waste from each grooming meeting. Planning poker is built in so there is no need to synchronize with external software.
This keeps the team engaged and solving user-focused problems - remember Personas and Coins - rather than watching someone else type or play the game of "find that menu item".
Sprint Planning
Mevali balances planning accuracy against the effort of planning, without lying to you about either.
A lot of teams decide how much to commit by
- Either comparing a single sprint number to a historical median - too coarse!
- Or cramming task authorship and Gantt chart puzzle solving into a planning meeting. The result is a lot of time wasted on a plan that is almost immediately obsolete when the sprint starts and which tells executives the team knows more than they can possibly know.
Mevali uses the information already recorded in the system.
- Displays dependencies and waves so risk and parallel work opportunities are obvious.
- Provides interactive forecasting using Monte Carlo simulation with suggested resolutions. Simulations are scaled to the most constrained resource and every forecast shows its sample size and confidence level.
This makes planning fast and avoids false precision.
Standup
Standup summarizes work by both team member (yesterday, today, and impediments) as well as by work item (what is stuck in the pipeline, what is at risk). The team spends the time collaborating and solving real problems.
Do you prefer direct messages and team chats as soon as a problem occurs over scheduled meetings? We think you might be missing an opportunity to avoid interruptions but you know what works best in your situation with your team, your current work, and your current context. Standups are optional and the flow analysis and by-team-member reports are available at any time.
Retrospective
Process improvements from the last retrospective stay visible during the sprint, so they can become changes in how the team works rather than forgotten meeting artifacts.
Period Review
At the end of a Sprint or Scrumban cadence, the team can see what it delivered for each persona. Scrum teams also receive awards that recognize teamwork and early completion.
Bring the pieces together
Mevali brings together user outcomes, feature decomposition, Kanban flow, Scrum events, and continuous improvement.
Not as plugins. Not as process theater. As one coherent system.