Essential board slides for CTOs

Communicating engineering performance to boards requires framing technical concepts in a way that leaders understand. Stop explaining why engineering metrics matter and start driving conversations about what they mean for the business. These slides help you transform technical data into strategic insight—precisely what your board expects from a technology leader.

From metrics to strategic narrative

Built around the DX Core 4 framework, these slides translate your engineering data into language your board members can easily understand. You’ll showcase key performance metrics for Speed, Effectiveness, Quality, and Impact—with industry benchmarks that contextualize your organization’s performance.

The template also highlights common engineering bottlenecks and their business impact, clarifying where your team should focus improvement efforts. Finally, it features a section on AI tool adoption that quantifies productivity gains—valuable insight for leaders evaluating these investments.

Driving meaningful executive conversations

Instead of presenting abstract metrics, you’ll deliver concrete answers to strategic questions such as:

• How efficiently are we shipping code?
• Where should we invest to remove engineering constraints?
• Is our quality meeting market expectations?
• What percentage of our engineering resources focus on building new value versus maintaining existing systems?

These insights enable board-level decisions about technology investments and priorities.

For DX customers, one-click generation is available from your DX dashboard. For everyone else, clone the Google Slides template, populate the linked data sheet, and you’re ready to go.