Your Team Is Doing Good Work. Your Reports Aren’t Showing It.
End-of-sprint reporting shouldn’t take half a day. Client status updates shouldn’t require exporting a CSV, reformatting it in a spreadsheet, and hoping the numbers are still accurate by the time the report is sent. If your project management tool requires you to manually assemble the story of what your team has delivered, the tool is doing half a job.
Pulse reporting is live. Every metric — budget burn, task velocity, team utilisation, milestone progress — updates in real time as work happens. Reports aren’t documents you build; they’re views of data that’s always current.
Live Dashboards for Every Stakeholder
Pulse generates role-appropriate dashboards automatically. Project managers see budget burn against estimates, sprint velocity trends, open blockers, and delivery risk by milestone. Team leads see individual and team utilisation, task completion rates, and cycle time. Executives see portfolio-level health across all active projects — which are green, which are at risk, and where the team’s capacity is concentrated.
Each dashboard is live. When a sprint closes, the velocity data updates. When a team member logs time, the budget burn chart moves. When a milestone slips, the delivery forecast adjusts. There’s no scheduled report that arrives too late to act on.
Client-Ready Reports in One Click
Pulse lets you generate a shareable, read-only report link for any project. The client sees a view configured for their context: milestone progress, hours logged against their budget, recent activity, and upcoming deliverables. The data is live — when you update a milestone status, they see it. When you close a sprint, the report reflects it.
This eliminates the weekly ritual of assembling a status update document. It also reduces the volume of inbound client status requests — clients who can check the report themselves don’t need to email you to ask how things are going. Teams that move clients to Pulse shared reports report a significant reduction in status-related communication overhead.
Real-Time Reporting vs. The Competition
Orbit and WorkBoard both offer reporting features. Both require you to run a report, export data, and work with a snapshot. By the time you send a report built on that data, it may already be a day out of date. Pulse doesn’t have report generation — it has live data views. The distinction matters when you’re managing a project that changes daily.
Key Metrics, Explained
Budget Burn
Real-time tracking of hours logged against project budget. See percentage consumed, projected overage based on current velocity, and a breakdown by team member or task category. Alerts trigger when burn rate projects an overrun before it happens.
Sprint Velocity
Story points or task count completed per sprint, trended over time. Pulse uses your team’s historical velocity to generate delivery forecasts — so you can tell a client with confidence when their project will be done, based on data, not optimism.
Team Utilisation
Hours logged versus available capacity, by team member and by period. Identify who is overloaded, who has capacity, and how much of your team’s time is going to billable versus internal work.
Cycle Time
How long tasks take from creation to completion, broken down by task type, project, or team member. Cycle time data helps you improve your estimates and identify bottlenecks in your delivery process.
Use Cases
- Agency principals use the portfolio dashboard to monitor project health across all client accounts without pulling individual reports — one view tells them where to focus their attention.
- Delivery managers use budget burn and velocity data to renegotiate scope with clients before a project runs over, rather than after.
- Engineers use cycle time data during retrospectives to identify which types of tasks consistently take longer than estimated and adjust future planning accordingly.
- Finance teams use Pulse time reports as the source of truth for client invoicing — no timesheet reconciliation required.
No Reporting Tax
The best reporting system is the one your team doesn’t have to maintain separately. Because Pulse reporting draws from the same data your team is already generating — logged time, closed tickets, updated milestones, merged pull requests — there’s no reporting overhead. Your team does the work. Pulse shows the story.