Your Jira Looks Healthy: So Why Is Delivery Still So Expensive?
The delivery is not only expensive, but it could be misleading.
Teams optimize for speed, velocity, and completion. While the real problem sits quietly in the background.
“It’s not personal. It’s strictly business.”
Like Mjolnir was crafted for Thor, Talon is crafted to give your team a capability it can truly wield.
Sprint reports look good.
Work items are moving through workflow.
Velocity is stable.
And yet… delivery keeps getting more expensive.
If you’ve ever looked at Jira and thought “everything seems fine here”, while getting the same question from finance or leadership “why does this cost so much?”, you’re not alone.
The delivery is not only expensive, but it could be misleading, creating a false sense of control and progress. What looks like progress in Jira can actually be an illusion.
This is one of the most common (and very dangerous) blind spots I see across teams using Jira.
The problem isn’t execution, it’s visibility. Jira tool is excellent at showing you what is happening, in terms of work item statuses, assignees, time logged, sprint or initiative progress, status of your backlog.
But, it is not straightforward in showing:
Where money is leaking during delivery
How much waiting (lag time) really costs
Is capacity used on high-value or low-value work
How estimation errors translate into real financial impact
In other words, teams optimize for speed, velocity, and completion. While the real problem sits quietly in the background. All teams are eventually in the business game, and while we rush to apply different frameworks and ”best practices”, we often forgot about basics. In other words, delivery economics. There’s a famous line in The Godfather that captures this perfectly: “It’s not personal. It’s strictly business.”
This line perfectly captures the missing layer in most teams setups. Delivery decisions shouldn’t be driven by optimism or velocity alone. They should be driven by economics, constraints, and impact. This is exactly the problem Talon is built to solve. Like Mjolnir was crafted for Thor, Talon is crafted to give your team a capability it can truly wield.
Talon doesn’t replace Jira workflows or force new processes. It amplifies what Jira already knows and turns it into operational intelligence. Here’s what that means in practice.
Cost of delivery per ticket, per person, per scope
Lead, lag, and cycle time with context
Work items statistics, volume and cost trends over time
Time tracking, from raw logs to workload clarity
Overall and metrics per ticket
Taken together, these capabilities change how teams use Jira. Instead of reacting to tickets, velocity, or isolated reports, teams gain a clear view of how work flows, where time and money are lost, and which decisions actually improve outcomes. Talon doesn’t ask teams to work harder or adopt yet another framework, it helps them see reality sooner, make trade-offs consciously, and align delivery decisions with business impact.
If this resonates with your experience, I’d be curious to hear how you currently approach delivery cost and capacity in Jira. And if you want to see what delivery economics look like when they’re visible inside Jira, you can explore Talon here: Talon | Atlassian Marketplace