TAD Pro

Department-level delivery intelligence.
For leaders who are done guessing.

TAD Pro is the full expression of TAD Delivery Intelligence. A comprehensive diagnostic for engineering departments with 4 or more teams — designed to surface systemic patterns, identify root causes that span teams, and deliver an executive-grade action plan.

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Pro vs. Plus

Pro is not Plus with more teams. It’s architecturally different.

Department-level intelligence

Pro doesn’t just diagnose individual teams — it identifies patterns across your entire engineering department. Cross-team bottlenecks, shared upstream dysfunction, and systemic issues that no single-team analysis can reveal.

Root cause analysis

Pro traces symptoms back to systemic root causes. When throughput drops across 3 teams simultaneously, Pro identifies whether the cause is shared or independent.

All 6 dimensions + full analytical layers

Pro evaluates all 6 scored dimensions plus Data Confidence and SLE Integrity as dedicated analytical layers — giving you the most complete picture of your delivery system.

Executive-grade output

The Pro report is designed for leadership. Department health scorecard, per-team profiles, root cause mapping, and a prioritized action plan with sequencing.

What’s included

Everything you need to see the full picture.

Full Department Diagnostic

4+ teams, each scored independently across all 6 delivery dimensions with full analytical layers. No blind spots.

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Department Health Scorecard

Your department-level health across all scored dimensions — a single view of organizational delivery capability.

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Cross-Team Comparison Matrix

See where each team sits relative to the department average. Outlier detection flags teams that need intervention.

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Systemic Root Cause Analysis

Root causes that span teams. The findings that only become visible when you look across the department.

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Data Confidence Layer

Full data confidence analysis with interpretation guidance. Every finding is qualified by data reliability.

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SLE Integrity Analysis

Department-wide SLE evaluation: real vs. weak vs. outdated vs. ignored. Per-team and systemic.

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Prioritized Action Plan

A 30/60/90-day plan sequenced by systemic impact. Not generic recommendations — actions tied to your specific findings.

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1-Hour Executive Debrief

Walk through your results with TAD. Prioritize findings, discuss context, and align on implementation.

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90-Day Rescore

Re-run the full diagnostic after 90 days to measure improvement across every dimension and team.

The math

The cost of not knowing.

The average delivery bottleneck costs an engineering team 2–3 weeks of throughput per quarter. For a department of 5 teams, that’s 10–15 weeks of lost output — the equivalent of 3+ engineers’ quarterly contribution.

TAD identifies the bottleneck in days. The math is simple.

2-3 wks
Lost throughput per team per quarter from undiagnosed bottleneck
5-10 days
Time to full department diagnosis with TAD Pro
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Cost vs. one misallocated sprint across your department
Real findings

What Pro diagnostics typically reveal

CRITICAL
WIP overload across 4 of 6 teams — no formal WIP limits enforced department-wide.

Root cause: no shared policy. Fix: 30-day WIP policy implementation across all teams with enforcement checkpoints.

HIGH
SLE integrity failure — stated SLE was arbitrary, not statistical. Last updated 19 months ago.

Teams were making delivery promises they had no data to support. Stakeholder trust eroding despite "meeting commitments" because commitments were guesses.

MEDIUM
Centralized QA creating handoff bottleneck for 3 teams. Data confidence for those teams rated Low.

Structure issue, not people issue. Each team's flow score was dragged down by the same organizational dependency. Invisible on individual team dashboards.

Without TAD Pro, leadership would have:
Blamed throughput decline on team capacity instead of identifying upstream intake failure
Continued measuring against an SLE that had no statistical basis
Treated a structural QA bottleneck as a resourcing problem
Made hiring decisions based on data that had never been validated for reliability

TAD Pro makes the invisible visible — before it becomes expensive.

How it works

Five steps. Full picture.

01
Request TAD Pro

Scope the engagement based on your department structure and team count.

02
Complete comprehensive intake

30+ structured questions per team. Where applicable, TAD may also review Jira data and SLE documentation.

03
Department-level analysis

All 6 dimensions scored plus full analytical layers, cross-team pattern recognition, root cause analysis, and data confidence evaluation.

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Executive report delivered

Department scorecard, per-team profiles, root cause mapping, and prioritized action plan. Delivered within 5–10 business days.

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Executive debrief + 90-day rescore

1-hour walkthrough of findings. After implementing the plan, re-run the diagnostic to measure improvement.

One diagnostic. Full department clarity.

$1,997

One investment. Not a subscription.

4+ teams6+2 diagnostic depthRoot cause analysisExecutive report1-hour debrief90-day rescore
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Less than the cost of one misallocated sprint across your department.

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Common questions

Frequently asked

How is Pro different from Diagnostic Plus?

Plus diagnoses up to 3 teams across 6 dimensions. Pro diagnoses 4+ teams across all 6 scored dimensions plus full analytical layers, with department-level pattern recognition, systemic root cause analysis, and an executive-grade action plan. Pro sees what individual team diagnostics can’t.

Why does department-level visibility matter?

Because the most impactful delivery problems are systemic. A team with declining throughput might be absorbing dysfunction from upstream intake, blocked by cross-team dependencies, or operating under an SLE set before the last reorg. Single-team diagnostics can’t see these patterns.

Is $1,997 worth it?

The average delivery bottleneck costs an engineering team 2-3 weeks of throughput per quarter. For a department, that compounds fast. TAD identifies the specific bottleneck in days. One found-and-fixed constraint pays for the diagnostic many times over.

What if our data quality is poor?

That's one of the most useful things TAD reveals. Every Pro diagnosis includes a full Data Confidence layer. If your data is thin, contradictory, or incomplete, the report says so — and qualifies all findings accordingly.

What happens after the diagnostic?

You receive your executive-grade report with a prioritized action plan, followed by a 1-hour debrief call. After 90 days, you can re-run the full diagnostic to measure improvement. If you want implementation support, TAD offers advisory retainer engagements as a separate service.

Is this software or consulting?

TAD is a diagnostic product with a structured, productized process. The Pro tier includes human review and a debrief call, but the diagnostic itself is a product — not a consulting proposal.

For teams that want implementation support

The diagnostic is just the start.

Most teams use the Pro report to open the conversation with leadership. If you want to actually implement the plan — with hands-on advisory, accountability structures, and real-time coaching — that’s where TAD’s consulting engagements come in.

Advisory
TAD Advisory Retainer

Monthly engagement with TAD. Custom to your org, sequenced by the findings from your diagnostic.

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One diagnostic. Full department clarity. Your delivery system will thank you.

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