About Tollgate

Built by people who have run the steering committee.

Tollgate gives each Jira project a dashboard, a plan and three registers, so the project manager can report from the project instead of rebuilding a pack. We built it because we spent twenty years rebuilding the pack.

Softwired, and twenty years on programs.

Tollgate is built by Softwired, an Australian digital transformation, delivery and change consultancy and an Atlassian Marketplace Partner.

We have run and governed multi-million programs across mining, financial services, education and health. We were the people who built the status pack, presented it, and answered for it afterwards.

Tollgate is the tool we wanted on those jobs.

James Hallam, Softwired’s founder and principal consultant, leads the work with the practitioners around him.

20 years

On real programs, on both sides of the steering committee table

4 sectors

Mining, financial services, education and health

Brisbane-built

Made by Softwired in Brisbane, working across Australia and the UK

Five features, each one needed to report.

Tollgate does five things. Each exists because a project manager needs it to report on time, cost, scope or risk.

A dashboard, a plan made of work packages, a timeline and S-curve, three registers, and an assistant that answers questions about the project. Nothing else.

Dashboard

Overall status, project brief, and Cost, Schedule and Scope cards. You set the status; Tollgate shows its calculated status beside yours.

Plan, timeline and S-curve

Work packages with dates, budget, actual, forecast and percentage complete. The timeline and S-curve draw themselves from them.

Registers and Ask Tollgate

Risks and opportunities, decisions and changes, plus a Rovo agent that answers questions about the project.

What we leave out

Tollgate is for running the steering committee from the project itself. It has few settings by design.

We leave out sprint metrics, capacity planning and a slide-export feature. Jira already covers the first, other tools cover the second, and the dashboard is the deck.

On each status card you set the status and write the commentary. Tollgate calculates a status from the plan and shows it beside yours. The project manager knows things the data doesn't, so the room should see where the two differ.

If you want a tool with endless configuration that reports on everything, another product will suit you better. If you want a straight answer to the question your steering committee keeps asking, we would like to show you Tollgate.

How Tollgate grows

When we learn something in the field that is worth building in, it goes into Tollgate as more depth in the place it belongs. We add no settings for their own sake. The product grows one lesson from a real steering committee at a time.

Your project data stays in your Jira.

Tollgate is a Forge app and runs on Atlassian infrastructure. There are no external servers and no external database.

Your project data lives inside your own Jira, behind the same security and data-residency boundary as the work. Ask Tollgate runs on Atlassian Rovo, so no outside AI service is briefed on your project.

A security review can check that boundary, because no Softwired server holds your data.

Tollgate Realisation view inside Jira: the case file recording the return the sponsor expected next to the return they got

See it run a real project.

The quickest way to judge it is to watch a steering committee run from the dashboard, on your own Jira.

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