Engineering · September 2026

Delay and rework are tying up an estimated

$325,351

▼ 30.3%betteragainst $466,487 in August

Utilisation by team

Share of engineers' time booked to work in September

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

83%

waiting

PAY-6421
PAY-6129
PAY-6102
PAY-6266
PAY-6045
PAY-6225
PAY-6134
PAY-6339
PAY-6310
PAY-6263

97% busy, yet 83% 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.

Sep 2026 · 425 items · median 10 days · 51% over

$325,351

Time above target (counted)$201k Defect rework$125k

Where it sits

Worst first, against each team's previous three months

What the figure is made of

Time above target: 215 of 425 items ran past the 9-day target
Defect rework: 240 engineer-days redoing finished work

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

Other metrics

Lead time

26days

▼ 19%

MayOct

Cycle time

10days

▼ 17%

MayOct

Throughput

425items

▼ 5%

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

5days

▼ 17%

MayOct

Predictability

77%

77% planned23% unplanned