What to do
Three changes, and what each is worth
Switch changes on and off, and set how much of the impact you accept.
Modeled position after three changes
Today
$300,978
Modeled
$211,095
Composition
Put an acceptance-criteria gate on Payments and Onboarding
29.1% of items entered development without agreed acceptance criteria. Those items took 2.1× longer on average and carry $172k of this month's counted figure - $98k of it counted time above target, the rest rework.
Modeled impact
$48,817
a month · $586k a year
Cap work in progress in Payments at two items per engineer
Payments runs 3.1 items per engineer against a departmental average of 1.9. Its overshoot cost is $50k, the highest of any team.
Modeled impact
$6,684
a month · $80k a year
Add contract tests on the direct debit retry path
Rework accounts for $157k this month across 301 engineer-days. Duplicate direct debit on retry is the single most repeated defect title.
Modeled impact
$34,382
a month · $413k a year