Your sprints drift.
We catch it first.
Northset reads the signals between your tools and alerts the one person positioned to correct course.
Jordan's PR needs review today to merge before sprint close. At this size, feedback and revisions typically take 2 days. You have 2 days left.
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Learns your team's patterns. Gets sharper every sprint.
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Jordan's PR needs review today to merge before sprint close. At this size, feedback and revisions typically take 2 days. You have 2 days left.
One message. Sent before it's too late.
Jira shows what happened. Northset tells you what's coming.
See sprint risk early enough to do something about it.
4+ days
Average wait before a pull request gets its first review
LinearB, ~1M PRs
40%
Mid-sprint scope creep above this level signals an overloaded sprint
Harness sprint metrics
Know if you’re overcommitted before anyone pulls a ticket.
Checks commitment accuracy, unplanned work history, and carry-over risk.
Sprint 15 is committed at 47 points. Team average is 38. Mid-sprint additions typically add 6 points. Recommend removing 15 points before kickoff to secure delivery.
Alex has a PR from last sprint with unaddressed feedback, and 8 points of work in Sprint 15. Remove 2 points before kickoff to account for the outstanding work.
Sent before standup. While you can still change the plan.
Surface blockers while there’s still time to act.
Detects PR bottlenecks, scope creep impact, and live trajectory state.
Maya's PR DATA-106 has been open 2 days with no review. It must be reviewed by tomorrow for dependent ticket DATA-108 to close this sprint. Sam is the assigned reviewer.
AUTH-219 is 5 points and hasn't been started. At the team's average velocity, it needs to start today to close this sprint. Alex is the assignee.
One message per signal. Sent to the right person, not the whole channel.
Turn sprint data into forward-looking recommendations.
Surfaces estimation patterns, recurring friction, and intervention effectiveness.
3 tickets took more than 1.5x their estimated points to close this sprint and last. Estimation may be consistently off for complex work. Review these tickets before Sprint 13 planning.
Unplanned additions averaged 6 points over the last 2 sprints, up from 4. Sprint 13 capacity has been adjusted to account for 6 points of unplanned work.
Named. Quantified. Something you can act on.
Know if you’re overcommitted before anyone pulls a ticket.
Checks commitment accuracy, unplanned work history, and carry-over risk.
Sprint 15 is committed at 47 points. Team average is 38. Mid-sprint additions typically add 6 points. Recommend removing 15 points before kickoff to secure delivery.
Alex has a PR from last sprint with unaddressed feedback, and 8 points of work in Sprint 15. Remove 2 points before kickoff to account for the outstanding work.
Sent before standup. While you can still change the plan.
By the time they ask, you already have the answer.
Northset gives the manager an early, honest read on whether the team will hit its commitment, with the lead time to act on it.
Sprint 15 is tracking behind its commitment with 4 days left. The gap is review wait time on two open PRs. Clear them this week and the team is back on track to deliver.
Early enough to act on. You own the decision.
Connected in ten minutes. Northset starts learning from sprint one.
Connect GitHub.
Reads your pull requests. Nothing to install.
Connect Jira.
Reads sprint dates, tickets, and dependencies.
Connect Slack.
Posts to the right person in the right channel.
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Week 1
Connect GitHub, Jira, and Slack in under ten minutes. Northset starts learning your team's patterns.
Weeks 2 to 3
First alerts land in Slack. You tell us what is signal and what is noise.
Week 4
We review what Northset caught and tune it to your team.
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