Engineering team productivity audit. In 3 months, or the money is on me.

"Our teams haven't delivered the majority of the roadmap for 3 quarters in a row." — every CEO who ends up on this call. I come in, find the leverage, agree the plan, run the tiger team. Sprint completion goes from 50% to 80%. If it doesn't, you don't pay.

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Sound familiar?

"I'm not sure what to put in the sprint. We have so many things to do. We are busy like hell."
— Engineering Manager

"Delivery poorly estimates their work. Every task takes twice the time. I can't help it."
— CPO

"Some devs are underperforming. Constant changes, people coming and leaving."
— PM

"I just hear excuses. Product and Tech blaming each other. We are not in kindergarten."
— CEO

Inefficiency patterns I see over and over

Teams have low trust and deliver half of the planned weekly work.
Teams aren't working on what matters most — the roadmap. Is there even a product strategy in place?
Disconnect between product and engineering, visible in the gap between dev tasks and company strategy.
Low focus: too many things in parallel. No clear WIP limit.
Developers not cooperating with PMs. Low discovery.
Too much work bounces back due to quality. Productivity keeps decreasing.
No clear priority agreement between support / new features / tech debt / bugs.

The maths behind the audit

50% → 80%

Sprint completion after audit

30%

Efficiency boost per developer

~180k CZK

Annual value per developer

A 60-person org running at 50% instead of 80% burns roughly 11 million CZK a year. The audit costs a fraction of that. The 3-month engagement pays for itself before month 4.

How it works — 3 months

Step 1 — 1st month
Seek the most valuable efficiency opportunities.
We embrace the current situation and find the way out. People are tired, busy, or biased — so we skip gut feeling and go on proven hypotheses and data. We agree the top 3 opportunities in writing, expressed in metrics.
1. Team efficiency + agility
2. Team leadership
3. Team spirit
4. Engagement to product
5. 20-min intro sessions with each team + relationship building over coffees, lunches, socials
6. Jira-extracted metrics: roadmap contribution, weekly completion, ad-hoc interruption, epic cycle time, delivery predictability, lead time, delivery quality
Step 2 — 2nd month
Proposal and evaluation.
Uncover the results, share the proposed battle plan, adjust and commit. I present findings scored on Agility / Predictability / Focus / Quality / People / Leadership. Then a detailed proposal — specific timeline, specific owners.
1. Findings + scored rating across 6 areas
2. Impact vs. effort matrix of opportunities
3. Detailed boost plan with owners and dates
4. Team + leadership sign-off
5. Initial "playground" fixes to prep the ground for execution
Step 3 — 3rd month
Adoption. Hard work.
Tiger team formed to execute improvements. No time for excuses. Weekly written updates. Public Miro roadmap. Predictable delivery cadence.
1. Tiger team ownership of each opportunity
2. Weekly chat/email updates to leadership
3. Public Miro roadmap of the initiative
4. Team-health board tracked continuously

The guarantee

No outcome, no money. If the KPIs we agree in month 1 aren't hit by month 3, you don't pay the final instalment.

This isn't a marketing line — it's how I priced my first 20 audits, and it's how I still do it. It keeps me honest. If the situation genuinely can't move in 3 months, we find out in month 1 and stop.

Logistics

Time allocation: 2 days a week for 3 months. At least 1 day on-site.
Requirements: transparency from top, time allocation for the team, access to Jira and any relevant tooling.
No extra licenses: I bring my own Jira extractor and Tableau/PowerBI templates.
Company size: ideal for orgs with 20-200 engineers. Smaller and larger orgs need a modified engagement.

Ready to fix it?

Emailmarian@marian.coachwith the current sprint-completion rate, the number of engineers, and the North Star you're trying to move. I'll come back within 48h with the fit and a scoping call proposal.