Engineering · August 2026

Delay and rework are tying up an estimated

$466,487

▲ 32.2%worseagainst $352,930 in July

Utilisation by team

Share of engineers' time booked to work in August

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-5632
PAY-5658
PAY-5734
PAY-5869
PAY-5928
PAY-5517
PAY-5669
PAY-5913
PAY-5726
PAY-5860

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.

Aug 2026 · 447 items · median 12 days · 65% over

$466,487

Time above target (counted)$319k Defect rework$147k

Where it sits

Worst first, against each team's previous three months

What the figure is made of

Time above target: 289 of 447 items ran past the 9-day target
Defect rework: 283 engineer-days redoing finished work

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

Other metrics

Lead time

32days

▲ 14%

MayOct

Cycle time

12days

▲ 9%

MayOct

Throughput

447items

▲ 7%

MayOct

Work in progress

1.9/ engineer

Payments3.1

Onboarding2.4

Lending1.8

Mobile1.5

Data1.4

Platform1.3

Flow efficiency

19%

19% working81% waiting

Deploys

4.7/ week

Platform7.2

Mobile5.4

Lending4.6

Data4.1

Onboarding3.8

Payments3.1

Queue aging

6days

▲ 20%

MayOct

Predictability

79%

79% planned21% unplanned