Say-Do Ratio & Live Commitment Health: How It Works
This page explains how the say-do ratio relates to the live commitment tracking features in Release Management, Roadmaps & Product Portfolio for Jira (formerly Advanced Release Planning).
What the say-do ratio measures
The say-do ratio compares what a team delivered against what it committed to deliver, usually at a PI or release boundary. A team that committed to 10 objectives and delivered 8 has a say-do ratio of 80%. The commitment side of the ratio comes from the team's confidence vote at planning — the considered judgment of the people doing the work, based on the throughput window, capacity, and scope they validated at that time.
Why it is a trailing indicator
The ratio can only be computed after the boundary has passed, so it reports commitment health when it is too late to change the outcome. It also does not attribute the gap: it cannot tell you whether the missed portion came from scope added after the vote, dependencies that surfaced late, or capacity that changed mid-PI.
Reading commitment health live
The app keeps the commitment made at planning current between boundaries:
Committed date + confidence band. Each release carries its committed date alongside a live probability band (50/85/95%), recalculated by Monte Carlo simulation on the team's own assumptions — the throughput window, capacity calendar, and scope stay team-owned inputs.
Erosion in days, by driver. When scope is added, a dependency surfaces, or capacity changes, the forecast shows the movement against the committed date in days and attributes it to its driver.
Renegotiation before the boundary. Because movement is visible when it happens, teams can rescope, resequence, or renegotiate the date while options still exist, rather than discovering the gap in the say-do number afterwards.
Effect on the say-do ratio
Teams that renegotiate scope and dates while the commitment is live tend to close the gap between "say" and "do" before it is scored. The ratio then confirms commitment reliability rather than revealing its absence.