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
$352,930
Modeled
$251,135
Composition
Put an acceptance-criteria gate on Payments and Onboarding
20.1% of items entered development without agreed acceptance criteria. Those items took 2.2× longer on average and carry $164k of this month's counted figure - $122k of it counted time above target, the rest rework.
Modeled impact
$60,951
a month · $731k 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 $104k, the highest of any team.
Modeled impact
$15,213
a month · $183k a year
Add contract tests on the direct debit retry path
Rework accounts for $114k this month across 220 engineer-days. Duplicate direct debit on retry is the single most repeated defect title.
Modeled impact
$25,631
a month · $308k a year