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Present engineering metrics to your board with confidence. This template helps you communicate how engineering is doing across four key dimensions:
  • Investment balance
  • Software capitalization
  • Key deliverables and initiatives
  • AI adoption and impact

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Everything you need to present engineering to your board

Use this template to communicate how your engineering organization is doing — from investment allocation and delivery metrics to AI adoption and team performance.
Investment balance
Show your board how engineering effort is distributed across new features, improvements, keeping the lights on (KTLO), and productivity work.

Use investment percentages as a starting point when aligning R&D resource investment with the board and executive team. Answer questions about your investment profile and whether the balance between new value creation and maintenance aligns with your company strategy.
Software capitalization
Give your board visibility into how engineering work is classified for accounting and reporting purposes — what's capitalized as CapEx and what's expensed as OpEx.

Provide the data your finance team needs and help the board understand how software development investment is reflected on the balance sheet.
Key deliverables and initiatives
Highlight the key features and initiatives your engineering organization delivered during the quarter.

Show resource allocation, and flow efficiency metrics for your most important engineering investments.
AI adoption and impact
Report on AI adoption across your engineering organization — from coding assistants to autonomous agents. Show which tools your engineers use, how broadly they're adopted, and what share of code is AI-generated.

Help your board understand how AI and agents are transforming development capacity and what that means for team productivity and your competitive position.
Operational excellence
Present DORA and other proven engineering metrics to demonstrate operational health: change lead time, PR cycle time, deployment frequency, and time to deploy.

Benchmark your performance against industry standards and show trends over time.
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