Guides

Software delivery guides for PMO and delivery leaders

Plain answers to the questions that come up when you govern a portfolio of software projects: which ones will slip, why, and what to tell executives.

What Is Software Delivery Intelligence? Software delivery intelligence turns project work, team capacity and deadlines into early warnings about which projects will slip, why, and what to do.
Weekly Executive Status Report Template for PMOs A free one-page weekly status report template for PMOs, using software delivery intelligence: projects ranked by risk, causes, decisions and capacity.
How to Forecast a Delivery Date from Jira Data Forecast a delivery date from Jira data in six steps, with JQL and a worked example, plus the confidence checks software delivery intelligence relies on.
Project Risk Scoring vs RAG Status Reporting Why RAG status hides project risk, and how to build a transparent 0–100 risk score from delivery signals, the way software delivery intelligence does.
Capacity Planning When People Are on Leave Why allocation percentages overstate team capacity, and how to plan around leave and shared people, with the checks software delivery intelligence uses.
Early Warning Signs a Software Project Will Slip Twelve early warning signs that a software project will miss its date, how to check each one in Jira, and what software delivery intelligence watches.
Portfolio Reporting in Jira: What Dashboards Miss How to build a portfolio dashboard in Jira, step by step, and the five things it cannot show that software delivery intelligence adds on top of Jira.
PMO KPIs for Software Delivery Portfolios Twelve PMO KPIs for a software delivery portfolio, with formulas, starting targets and pitfalls, grouped the way software delivery intelligence reports them.
Earned Value Management for Software Projects Calculate earned value (SPI and CPI) for a software project from Jira estimates, with a worked example and how software delivery intelligence uses it.