PredictabilityDeliver When You Say You Will
The business needs to make commitments, to customers, to investors, to partners. They can only do that if they can count on engineering to deliver predictably. Predictability enables planning; unpredictability creates chaos.
Teams maintain a predictable cadence of delivery enabling the organization to make informed business decisions.
Why This Matters
Two-thirds of software projects fail to deliver on time or on budget. That's not bad luck. It's a systemic problem with how organizations plan and execute work.
Source: PMI Pulse of the ProfessionA project estimated at 3 months typically takes 9 months. Teams routinely take 2-3x longer than planned because estimates are systematically optimistic, making business planning nearly impossible.
Source: Project management researchLarge IT projects run 45% over budget on average. A $10M project typically costs $14.5M. The bigger the project, the worse the prediction, large initiatives are especially prone to missing targets.
Source: McKinsey StudyUnpredictability destroys trust. When engineering consistently misses dates, leadership stops believing any timeline. They either pad everything with buffers or make commitments without consulting engineering at all. Neither approach works.
The root causes are usually: unclear scope that keeps expanding, no measurement of actual velocity, optimistic estimates based on hope rather than data, and dependencies that create unexpected delays. Predictability requires addressing all of these.
Sound Familiar?
If you're experiencing these symptoms, you're not alone, and we can help.
Major releases routinely slip, and no one is surprised anymore
Scope creep is constant, "just one more thing" every sprint
Estimates are based on gut feel, not historical data
Teams pad estimates because they know scope will change
Leadership has stopped trusting engineering timelines
Hitting dates requires heroics, late nights, weekends, burnout
How We Fix It
Predictability comes from measuring reality, managing scope, and delivering in consistent increments.
Establish Real Baselines
We measure how work actually flows through your system. Not how fast you wish you were, how fast you actually are. You can't predict what you don't measure. Data replaces hope.
Create Delivery Cadence
We help establish a regular rhythm of delivery. Consistent sprints with consistent output. The business learns they can count on this cadence for planning.
Manage Scope Explicitly
Scope changes are fine, but they must be visible and have consequences. We implement practices that make tradeoffs explicit. When scope grows, either dates move or something gets cut.
What Changes
When delivery becomes predictable:
Business planning becomes possible
Leadership can make commitments to customers, investors, and partners because they know engineering will deliver. Confidence enables strategy.
"Agile Velocity helped us move from siloed, perfection-first delivery to a predictable, value-driven approach." - Anis Zribi, VP of R&D, Qualitrol
Trust rebuilds
When you hit your commitments consistently, credibility returns. Engineering becomes a trusted partner, not a source of uncertainty.
Heroics disappear
Sustainable pace replaces last-minute crunches. Predictable delivery without burnout.
Planning improves
With historical data, forecasting becomes more accurate. You know what you can commit to, and what you can't.
Real Results
Organizations that achieved this outcome with our help.
Southwest Tech Ops
Tech Ops Technology, managing 55 critical applications for aircraft readiness and safety, transformed 300+ team members using SAFe and Path to Agility to dramatically improve predictability and delivery.
Qualitrol
Qualitrol achieved 25% cycle time reduction and 40% improvement in new product introduction investment utilization through SAFe implementation with dedicated coaching.
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