Engineering · October 2026

Delay and rework are tying up an estimated

$300,978

▼ 7.5%betteragainst $325,351 in September

Utilisation by team

Share of engineers' time booked to work in October

95%

busy

TeamEng.Time bookedEach working day

Nobody is idle. Click a team to see where its time goes.

Payments: working vs waiting

Working Waiting

81%

waiting

PAY-6915
PAY-6714
PAY-6688
PAY-6567
PAY-6806
PAY-6670
PAY-6869
PAY-6909
PAY-6687
PAY-6753

97% busy, yet 81% of lead time is waiting.

Six months, recalculated nightly

Click a month to see it. The dashed line marks a change, so you can see if it worked

−30.6%

vs the prior 3 months

$443kMay $481kJun $353kJul $466kAug WIP cap piloted$325kSep $301kOct

Sep: WIP cap piloted in Payments. Since then, 30.6% lower than the prior 3 months.

Oct 2026 · 430 items · median 9 days · 44% over

$300,978

Time above target (counted)$144k Defect rework$157k

Where it sits

Worst first, against each team's previous three months

What the figure is made of

Time above target: 190 of 430 items ran past the 9-day target
Defect rework: 301 engineer-days redoing finished work

Counts 50% of time above target. Value at stake, not cash saved.

Other metrics

Lead time

24days

▼ 8%

MayOct

Cycle time

9days

▼ 10%

MayOct

Throughput

430items

▲ 1%

MayOct

Work in progress

1.9/ engineer

Payments3.1

Onboarding2.4

Lending1.8

Mobile1.5

Data1.4

Platform1.3

Flow efficiency

18%

18% working82% waiting

Deploys

4.7/ week

Platform7.2

Mobile5.4

Lending4.6

Data4.1

Onboarding3.8

Payments3.1

Queue aging

4days

▼ 20%

MayOct

Predictability

77%

77% planned23% unplanned