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
$466,487
Modeled
$334,460
Composition
Put an acceptance-criteria gate on Payments and Onboarding
24.8% of items entered development without agreed acceptance criteria. Those items took 2.2× longer on average and carry $233k of this month's counted figure - $165k of it counted time above target, the rest rework.
Modeled impact
$82,572
a month · $991k 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 $98k, the highest of any team.
Modeled impact
$15,837
a month · $190k a year
Add contract tests on the direct debit retry path
Rework accounts for $147k this month across 283 engineer-days. Duplicate direct debit on retry is the single most repeated defect title.
Modeled impact
$33,618
a month · $403k a year