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
$325,351
Modeled
$227,167
Composition
Put an acceptance-criteria gate on Payments and Onboarding
24% of items entered development without agreed acceptance criteria. Those items took 2.3× longer on average and carry $172k of this month's counted figure - $121k of it counted time above target, the rest rework.
Modeled impact
$60,465
a month · $726k 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 $69k, the highest of any team.
Modeled impact
$9,140
a month · $110k a year
Add contract tests on the direct debit retry path
Rework accounts for $125k this month across 240 engineer-days. Duplicate direct debit on retry is the single most repeated defect title.
Modeled impact
$28,579
a month · $343k a year