Scrumlord: your startup, one sprint at a time

Scrumlord is a free, cozy pixel-art management sim where the sprint board is the game board. Run a tiny startup’s dev team: plan sprints, ship features users want, keep the team from burning out, and grow before the runway ends.

Help: how Scrumlord works

How a sprint works. Every sprint has four steps: Plan, Sprint days, Ship and Retro. Then it starts again.
Your first sprints. What matters most early on, and the traps new players fall into.
Story points and capacity. How much work fits in a sprint, and what eats into it.
Fuzzy tickets and refining. Fuzzy work takes longer and ships more bugs. Refining makes it clear.
Energy, stress and morale. Tired, stressed or unhappy people work slower, make more bugs and can quit.
Who picks up what. Specialists are fastest on their own kind of work. Set what people do when they run out.
Users, happiness and popularity. Popularity brings people in each day, happiness keeps them, and bugs drive them away.
What users want and interviews. Interviews tell you exactly what a group of users needs, so you build the right things.
Releases and what they bring. Why one release brings hundreds of users and another almost none.
Cash, MRR, burn and runway. Revenue comes in, salaries go out. Runway is how long you can keep going.
Pricing and marketing. Price sets how much each paying user brings; marketing buys attention.
Code health and stability. Messy code slows everything and breeds bugs; low stability means outages.
Foundations. Logins, data storage, an API: what your features stand on. Weak ones make everything worse.
Bugs and outages. Where bugs come from, what escaped bugs cost, and how outages work.
CEO patience. How much the CEO trusts your calls. Too low and they start overriding you.
Stakeholders. The CTO, Support and your Head of Growth or Sales each want something. Keep them on side.
Goals, reviews and stages. What investors want each quarter, and what happens when you hit or miss it.
Funding and equity. Raising money buys runway but gives away part of the company.
The Playbook and focus. Cards you play in Get ready, paid for with focus.
Code health is low. Get it back above 60 so the team stops slowing down.
Running out of money. Default dead, runway shrinking: how to buy time.
Users aren’t growing. A big release brought few users, or signups have stalled.
Happiness is dropping. Unhappy users leave and stop recommending you.
The team is stressed or quitting. Burnout and quitting cost more than a slower sprint.
Too many bugs or outages. Bugs keep escaping, or outages keep happening.
The CEO is losing patience. Win back trust before they start overriding you.
Behind on the goal. The quarter review is coming and you’re not there yet.
Work keeps running over. Tickets don’t finish in the sprint you planned them.
Someone sits idle. A teammate has nothing to do while work is waiting.

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