By team

Where the cost sits, team by team

Data

Reporting and regulatory feeds · 12 engineers

Earliest period held,
no baseline to move against

$32,642

$2,720 per engineer in May

$21k overshoot$12k rework

Measured against the departmental position

Refinement quality
of items entered development without agreed acceptance criteria
15%
WIP per engineer
against a departmental average of 1.9
1.4
Rework
spent redoing work already called done
23 days
Median cycle time
against 9 days across the department
12 days

Open one to see its arithmetic

Item	Cycle	Over target	Rework	Cost
Third party supplier register DAT-4228·Compliance· no acceptance criteria	26d	+17d	0.5d	$3,822
Vulnerable customer flagging (EU entity) DAT-4174·Compliance	25d	+16d	-	$3,440
Apple Pay provisioning DAT-4087·Feature· no acceptance criteria	21d	+12d	2.1d	$2,934
Payee nickname lost on edit DAT-4268·Defect	9d	-	4.4d	$2,288
FX rate rounds the wrong way (batch path) DAT-4022·Defect	8d	-	4.3d	$2,236

37 items completed in Data in May 2026. The five above account for 45.1% of its cost of delay.