Portfolio release governance
Release Governance: Portfolio
“What are we delivering, where is it, what is stopping it, and where must management intervene?”
Why teams buy this
- The decision
- What are we delivering, where is it, what is stopping it, and where must management intervene?
- Cost of a wrong call
- A release that ships with an open blocker, or a quarter where one gate quietly holds back a dozen releases.
- What you'd do otherwise
- Status set by hand in delivery tools or a spreadsheet, then chased in steering meetings.
- What you see first
- Gate health calculated from criteria, evidence and blockers, a map of readiness against days to release, and the releases inside their decision window.
- Start here
- Buy the Power BI pack ($690) and run it on your own exports, or start with the free Business Soundcheck. See the pack
What it shows
- Executive Control Tower across a portfolio of initiatives and releases.
- A 10-gate lifecycle, from Intake to Post-Release, with calculated gate health.
- Release risk map: readiness against days to release, with a decision window.
- Readiness matrix, release pipeline, dependencies and risk, and a 90-day plan.
Outcomes
- Management attention goes to the few initiatives that need a decision.
- Systemic bottlenecks, such as one gate holding many releases, become visible.
- A starter pack that runs from CSV files, with no SaaS account needed to pilot.
Built for: CIOs, PMOs and architecture or release boards governing a portfolio of technology change.
Product specification
Eight report pages: Executive Control Tower, Readiness Matrix, Release Pipeline, Gate Health, 90-Day Release Plan, Dependencies & Risk, Release Detail, and a Model & Configuration appendix.
Gate health is calculated from mandatory criteria, evidence and open blockers rather than entered by hand. Release risk plots readiness against days to release. Framework tags come as a regulatory pack: an Australian pack (CPS 234, CPS 230) or a US pack (SOC 2, NIST SP 800-34, CIS Controls v8, CCPA/CPRA).
- Pages
- 8
- Gates
- 10, Intake to Post-Release
- Editions
- Australia · United States
- Format
- Power BI (PBIP), CSV starter pack
How it's delivered: days, not months
- ScopeA short call to agree the decision it needs to support and which data you already have.
- LoadYour exports go into the model's CSV templates. No live connection to your systems is needed to start.
- RunThe model runs on your data, and every number traces back to its inputs and the documented method.
- Hand overYou keep the Power BI file, its design walkthrough and engineering companion, or our practitioners run it with you each month.
What's in the box · Release Governance: Portfolio pack
Power BI reports
TechnologyReleaseGovernance.pbip
- Executive Control Tower
- Readiness Matrix
- Release Pipeline
- Gate Health
- 90-Day Release Plan
- Dependencies & Risk
- Release Detail
- Appendix — Model & Configuration
TechnologyReleaseGovernance_US.pbip
- Executive Control Tower
- Readiness Matrix
- Release Pipeline
- Gate Health
- 90-Day Release Plan
- Dependencies & Risk
- Release Detail
- Appendix — Model & Configuration
Guides
- Design Walkthrough, 21 pages (PDF and Word)
- Engineering Companion, 49 pages (PDF and Word)
- Design Walkthrough (US edition), 21 pages (PDF and Word)
- Engineering Companion (US edition), 49 pages (PDF and Word)
- Agent implementation kit: ordered steps with a check at each one, a file manifest with checksums, a JSON Schema for every data file and a validator, so an AI agent or engineer can implement it without guesswork
Data
20 configuration · 20 synthetic sample data CSV files. The sample organisation is a fictional portfolio of technology initiatives and releases; no real client data is included.
How results are calculated
Gate health, readiness and release risk are calculated inside the Power BI model from the CSV files. Replace the inputs, refresh, and everything recalculates.
You need
- Power BI Desktop (Windows)
Not included
- Implementation support
- Technical support beyond documentation
- Practitioner interpretation (available as Practitioner Review)
One-off payment, no subscription. One organisation. 12 months of updates. Every download is stamped with your licence record. Digital products are delivered immediately, so purchases are not refundable except where the law requires (your Australian Consumer Law rights are not affected). Licence terms.
Three ways to use it
Self-serve · engine
Engine coming soon
This product's engine is being prepared for the API. Run the free Soundchecks in the meantime.
DevelopersSelf-serve · Power BI
Buy the pack · $690
The Power BI report, guides, sample data and agent implementation kit listed above. One organisation, 12 months of updates, no support.
With a practitioner
Set up and run with you
A practitioner runs it on your data and interprets the result. Sized per client, starting with a $750 Practitioner Review.
Book a walkthroughSee Release Governance: Portfolio running on your own data.
