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P0In progress Cycle · Jul 1 – Sep 30, 2026
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Q3 2026 Reliability & Cost Sprint

Sponsor Emma Novak (CTO) · Owner Priya Raman

Chapter completion42%
Cycle window
Jul 1 – Sep 30, 2026
Included problems
3 of 5 open
Goals
3
B

Included Problems

Frozen at lock. This is the exact set this cycle is committed to.

Rollup

This cycle addresses 3 open problems: Payments reliability (RED), cloud cost growth (YELLOW), and build queue latency (YELLOW).

Included(3)
Locked scope
redPayments reliability risk increasedPartially addressed
yellowInfrastructure cost trending above planNot addressed
yellowCI queue times degrading developer flowPartially addressed
C

Goals

The goals this cycle committed to. Frozen at lock.

DRoadmap
Phase
Start
End
Owner
Status
Depends on
1
Investigation
Jul 3
Jul 14
Priya Raman
Done
2
Runbooks + SLOs
Jul 15
Aug 5
Alex Park
In progress
Investigation
3
Rollback + canary improvements
Aug 6
Aug 30
Devon Wu
Not started
Runbooks + SLOs
4
Review and stabilize
Sep 2
Sep 20
Priya Raman
Not started
Rollback + canary improvements
EAction Items (4)
Task
Owner
Due
Status
Ticket
Evidence
Draft checkout-api incident runbook v2
Alex Park
Jul 22
In progress
PAY-4821
Runbook draft · 3 reviewers
Define SLO: checkout-api p95 < 400ms
Priya Raman
Jul 26
In progress
PAY-4830
Baseline p95 = 612ms
Add canary stage to checkout-api pipeline
Devon Wu
Aug 10
Not started
PAY-4855
Post-incident review: Jul 8 outage
Priya Raman
Jul 18
Done
PAY-4790
Doc published · 4 actions filed

Locked. Only Status can move — the task list, owners, and dates are frozen for the cycle.

F

Progress Tracking

The one part still moving. Action status, progress %, and metric readings update live.

Overall completion
42%
across all goals
Daily action progress
1 of 8
tasks completed
Monthly metric movement
3 metrics moving
1 on track · 2 behind pace
Per-problem movement
Payments reliabilityPartially addressedRED → YELLOW, 40% of the way to target
Cloud cost growthNot addressedNo movement yet — investigation phase
Build queue latencyPartially addressed11m → 8m wait time, 60% of the way to target
Did This Goal Improve the Problem?
Expected vs actual · pick a goal
ExpectedActual
20m35m50m65m80mtarget 35mW1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8MTTR (checkout-api) · minutes