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Your work is about people.Not paperwork.

Built by a former teacher who became a Scrum Master and watched the human work disappear. This is the tool that gives it back.

ERIC REIGHARD · FORMER TEACHER · SENIOR SCRUM MASTER · FOUNDER
The Admin Tax

Every hour you spend reporting is an hour you're not coaching.

Sprint summaries, velocity reports, stakeholder briefs — all necessary, all stealing time from the people who need you in the room.

4–6 hrs
Per day lost to admin work that a tool could handle
80%
Of sprint failures had signals visible days earlier
1 click
To get it all back. That's Driftless.
The Signal

Your board sees a ticket.
Driftless sees a person.

One click reads your Jira or Rally board and surfaces who needs you today — not what's blocked, but who's quietly struggling behind it.

Driftless™
Platform Engineering · Sprint 14
Jira · sprint-board detected
Check in with Alex today
PLAT-198 has been in progress for 11 days with no status change. Before you ask about the ticket, ask about Alex. Something shifted.
Pattern signal
PLAT-194 carried from Sprint 13. Jordan's name is on both. Different ticket — same root. This is a process conversation, not a performance one.
Sprint recoverable
6 of 15 done. 18 pts left. 6 days remaining. Address the blocker today and this sprint closes on goal.
The Human Play

Every output ends with what to say out loud.

Not a dashboard to stare at. Not a report to file. A sentence you walk into the room with — grounded in your board data and the 2020 Scrum Guide.

Driftless™
Platform Engineering · Sprint 14
Blocker — 11 days
PLAT-198 is frozen. Alex picked it up Sprint 13 and nothing has moved. The board says it's "in progress." The board is wrong.
The Human Play →
"Hey Alex — I noticed this one's been open a while. What changed after you picked it up?"
Check on the person, not the ticket. Scrum Guide: "Causing the removal of impediments to the Scrum Team's progress."
Load imbalance
Jordan is carrying 5 of 9 active stories. Two teammates have one each.
The Human Play →
"Jordan, I want to check in — that's a lot on your plate. What can we shift?"
This is a load conversation, not a performance conversation.
Sprint Journal

It remembers your team
so you can focus on being present.

Every tool run auto-saves context. After a few sprints, Driftless knows your team's patterns, history, and what worked last time. You walk in prepared without preparing.

Driftless™
Platform Engineering · Sprint 14
🚨 Blocker Scan
PLAT-198 blocked 11 days. Alex carrying load. Escalation path discussed — no vendor response.
Auto-saved · Sprint 14, Day 3
🌅 Sprint Planning
Committed 32 pts vs 29 avg. Jordan flagged as overloaded. Team agreed to descope PLAT-210 if needed.
Auto-saved · Sprint 14, Day 1
📊 Retro Coaching
Team identified "silent blockers" as pattern. Action: anyone stuck > 2 days raises it in standup. Jordan volunteered to model it.
Flagged by SM · Sprint 13 Retro
For Leadership

Support your SMs.
Don't just manage them.

The leadership dashboard gives you both the numbers and the strategy to make a human connection to drive impact. Every SM card includes a Human Play — what to say, how to say it.

SR
Sarah R.
Platform Engineering
L3
Maturity
94%
Say/Do
+12%
Carry-Over
Your Human Play →
"Sarah — carry-over trending up three sprints. What's driving it? Scope, capacity, or something the team isn't saying?"
Capacity conversation, not performance. She's at L3 — the system is overloading her team.
KL
Kim L.
Data Platform
L3
Maturity
96%
Say/Do
0
Blockers
Your Human Play →
"Kim — three sprints in a row. I see it. What's one thing I can do to keep this going?"
Wins should be as loud as warnings. She's earned recognition — give it.

Driftless is the soul
your tools lack.

GROUNDED IN THE 2020 SCRUM GUIDE · BUILT ON THE AGILE MANIFESTO · MADE BY A SCRUM MASTER

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what to do.

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