Engineering · May 2026

Delay and rework are tying up an estimated

$443,115

The earliest period the brain holds, so there is nothing to compare it against yet.

Utilisation by team

Share of engineers' time booked to work in May

95%

busy

TeamEng.Time bookedEach working day

Nobody is idle. Click a team to see where its time goes.

Payments: working vs waiting

Working Waiting

81%

waiting

PAY-4283
PAY-4353
PAY-4247
PAY-4034
PAY-4199
PAY-4171
PAY-4328
PAY-4209
PAY-4180
PAY-4271

97% busy, yet 81% of lead time is waiting.

Six months, recalculated nightly

Click a month to see it. The dashed line marks a change, so you can see if it worked

−30.6%

vs the prior 3 months

$443kMay $481kJun $353kJul $466kAug WIP cap piloted$325kSep $301kOct

Sep: WIP cap piloted in Payments. Since then, 30.6% lower than the prior 3 months.

May 2026 · 402 items · median 13 days · 65% over

$443,115

Time above target (counted)$320k Defect rework$123k

Where it sits

Worst first, against each team's previous three months

What the figure is made of

Time above target: 263 of 402 items ran past the 9-day target
Defect rework: 237 engineer-days redoing finished work

Counts 50% of time above target. Value at stake, not cash saved.

Other metrics

Lead time

35days

MayOct

Cycle time

13days

MayOct

Throughput

402items

MayOct

Work in progress

1.9/ engineer

Payments3.1

Onboarding2.4

Lending1.8

Mobile1.5

Data1.4

Platform1.3

Flow efficiency

18%

18% working82% waiting

Deploys

4.7/ week

Platform7.2

Mobile5.4

Lending4.6

Data4.1

Onboarding3.8

Payments3.1

Queue aging

6days

MayOct

Predictability

77%

77% planned23% unplanned