Scrum batteries included.
Stop losing
- money and opportunities by building the wrong thing for your users
- 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, feature decomposition, Kanban flow, and native Scrum events that are actually fast, actionable, and pleasant.
One coherent system. No configuration project. No certification. No plugins to assemble.
Batteries included means
Not a starting point you configure for a quarter. Not a plugin stack you assemble and pay for separately.
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Personas and Coins
Every item carries who benefits and what it is worth.
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Structured stories
Who, What, Why, Worth, and acceptance criteria as real objects — not bullets buried in a text field.
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One-click decompose and recompose
Promote, demote, split, and merge without losing the work you already did.
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Drag-drop blockers
Declare a dependency in seconds.
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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!
Building the wrong thing is bad for users and bad for business.
- Even if AI reduces building costs to zero, features must be supported, taught, and consume valuable space in your users' minds and on their screens in perpetuity.
- One useless feature can make it hard or even impossible for you to deliver the killer feature that earns you a competitive advantage.
- Every useless or low value feature is wasted short-term spend and a permanent liability.
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: an estimate of user value, analogous to how story points estimate effort.
Coins over Points is user value return on investment. It gives the team — and AI agents — a clear signal for prioritization. Now the team is arguing about something real instead of trading opinions.
Effective communication considers the audience. Effective product design knows its user. High performing teams always knew the user and connected their work to meaning and purpose. AI has amplified this need! Engineers are shifting left and product is shifting right, but the biggest risk today isn't the cost to build a widget — it's that you should have built a gadget.
Work 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 support hierarchical structure but place the focus on the bottom level increment of work, so that teams lose essential context when working. Mevali supports Areas, Features, and Stories/Bugs, and provides a DUAL focus of stories/bugs and features by defaulting to swimlanes in Kanban and Planning surfaces.
Area is deliberate. It organizes related work without pretending that an open-ended scope is a deliverable. If you know Scrum, you know Mevali.
The work breakdown usually needs to change AFTER it is created. 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).
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. It is also what makes the drag/drop operations possible, and — coming soon — what gets sent to AI agents.
Other products compensate for undermodeling story structure by providing AI workflows to decompose larger blobs of text into smaller blobs of text. That is a data model which cannot represent structure, papered over with AI features. Meaningful content is buried alive in their backlogs, requiring users to open three to five tabs to understand context.
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 percentile 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 again.
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.
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.
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 problems rather than watching someone else type.
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 into a planning meeting and then solving a Gantt chart puzzle. The result is a lot of time wasted on a plan that is almost immediately obsolete when the sprint starts.
Mevali uses the information already recorded in the system.
- Displays sequencing and parallel work opportunities so team members get a visual sense of flow issues.
- Provides interactive forecasting using Monte Carlo simulation with suggested resolutions.
- Each simulated sprint is scaled by whichever role is short, engineering or QA. A QA shortfall lowers the forecast.
- 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.
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.
Sprint Review
At the end of the sprint, the team can see what it delivered for each persona, and the software gives awards to encourage team work.
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.