Your dashboards show metrics.
We diagnose what’s actually breaking.
TAD Delivery Intelligence analyzes your engineering delivery system across flow, WIP, throughput, data confidence, and SLE integrity — and tells you exactly where it’s failing and why. Not opinions. Not coaching. Diagnosis.
You know delivery is off. You just can’t see why.
Your teams are busy. Velocity looks reasonable. Jira has data. But features still ship late. Commitments slip. Stakeholders are frustrated. And when you ask what went wrong, the answers are vague.
Cycle time keeps climbing and nobody can explain the root cause.
Teams are busy but commitments are regularly missed.
Unplanned work derails every sprint and leadership is losing trust.
Your Jira data exists but doesn’t tell you what’s structurally wrong.
You’ve tried coaching, process changes, and new tools. The same problems persist.
The problem is not effort. The problem is visibility. Dashboards show what happened. They don’t show why it’s happening.
Dashboards measure output. They don’t diagnose systems.
Dashboards are rearview mirrors. TAD Delivery Intelligence is a diagnostic engine.
A structured diagnostic for engineering delivery.
TAD evaluates your delivery system across six scored dimensions and two analytical layers. The depth depends on your tier.
Flow Efficiency
25%Is work moving through your system without unnecessary stalls, handoffs, or wait states?
WIP Discipline
20%Are teams taking on the right amount of work, or is everything in progress and nothing finishing?
Throughput & Predictability
20%Can you reliably forecast when work will be done, or are estimates consistently wrong?
Work Intake Quality
15%Is work entering your system well-defined, properly sized, and ready to build?
Team Structure & Ownership
10%Are teams structured to deliver independently, or are dependencies creating hidden bottlenecks?
Delivery Visibility & Metrics
10%Do the metrics your org tracks actually help you make decisions?
TAD’s scoring engine uses a weighted diagnostic model that cross-validates self-reported data against declared pain points, tool usage, and optional CSV exports from Jira or Linear. The engine pattern-matches against 9 structural bottleneck types and generates root-cause findings with specific recommended actions.
What TAD finds that dashboards miss.
Anonymized findings from actual TAD diagnostics.
“Your SLE says 85% of items should close within 14 days. Actual performance over the last 6 months is 52%. The SLE has not been updated in 19 months. Teams are being measured against expectations that no longer reflect reality.”
“Team B’s throughput declined 34% this quarter. The root cause is not Team B — it’s Team A’s intake process, which is sending poorly scoped work downstream and forcing rework cycles that inflate cycle time by 40%.”
“Your Jira data shows an average cycle time of 8 days. But 22% of items have no start date logged, and 15% were bulk-closed in a single session. Data confidence is low. Your cycle time metric is not reliable.”
These are not hypothetical. These are the kinds of findings TAD delivers. Dashboards will never surface them because dashboards do not diagnose — they display.
TAD was built by Darius Yates — inside the delivery systems it now diagnoses.
Darius has spent years embedded in engineering organizations — not advising from the outside, but working inside delivery systems, diagnosing why work ships late, why metrics mislead, and why the same structural failures keep appearing across teams, departments, and companies.
The patterns behind TAD’s scoring model — WIP overload masquerading as capacity problems, SLEs nobody enforces, intake failures blamed on prioritization — are not theoretical. They are the specific, recurring failure modes Darius diagnosed firsthand across dozens of engineering organizations before productizing them into TAD.
TAD is not a consulting company. It is a delivery intelligence product — built by an operator who turned years of hands-on system diagnosis into a structured, repeatable diagnostic engine.
About Darius Yates & TAD →How it works
Choose your tier. Complete the intake. Get your diagnosis.
TAD Lite is free for one team. Diagnostic Plus covers up to 3 teams with deeper analysis. Pro delivers full department-level intelligence.
Answer focused questions about your team(s), delivery patterns, and current challenges. Lite takes under 10 minutes. Plus and Pro scale with team count.
Lite delivers on-screen results instantly. Plus delivers an exportable PDF with data confidence and SLE analysis. Pro delivers an executive-grade report with root cause analysis and a prioritized action plan.
Choose the depth your organization needs.
Start with a free directional read, or go straight to the diagnostic depth your situation demands.
Directional signal for one team
A fast, email-gated diagnostic that gives you an early read on where your delivery system may be struggling.
The diagnostic most teams actually need
Deeper scoring, data confidence analysis, SLE validation, and real diagnostic findings across up to 3 teams.
Department-level delivery intelligence
Root cause analysis, executive-grade reporting, and a prioritized action plan across your entire engineering org.
Less than a senior engineer’s weekly cost. Diagnoses your entire department.
Most teams start with Lite for a directional signal. When the findings confirm what they suspect, they go deeper with Diagnostic Plus. Leaders managing 4+ teams go straight to Pro for department-level root cause analysis.
Stop guessing.
Start diagnosing.
Your dashboards are not going to tell you why delivery is breaking. TAD will. Start with a free directional diagnostic for one team. If the signal confirms what you suspect, go deeper.
No account required · Instant results · Data never sold · Used by engineering teams shipping real software