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
$481,482
Modeled
$338,313
Composition
Put an acceptance-criteria gate on Payments and Onboarding
25.1% of items entered development without agreed acceptance criteria. Those items took 2.2× longer on average and carry $239k of this month's counted figure - $179k of it counted time above target, the rest rework.
Modeled impact
$89,640
a month · $1.08m 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 $117k, the highest of any team.
Modeled impact
$20,223
a month · $243k a year
Add contract tests on the direct debit retry path
Rework accounts for $142k this month across 273 engineer-days. Duplicate direct debit on retry is the single most repeated defect title.
Modeled impact
$33,306
a month · $400k a year