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A software development team reworks about 26% of its code prior to release. Even after accounting for necessary changes, wasted hours can cost a medium-sized business upwards of $4.7M a year. Unnecessary Rework, or code churn, is a significant source of waste across all industries. The cost of Rework in software development is staggering, setting businesses of all sizes back millions of dollars a year, according to a 2017 DORA white paper, Forecasting the Value of DevOps Transformations.