Cycle Time Shows How Long Work Takes
You might wonder if your estimates are correct. Or you might wonder why some story is taking forever to finish. In that case, measure cycle time. In software, we have at least two ways to measure the time something takes: cycle time and lead time.
- Cycle time
-
The duration of time from when you put a card in the first in-progress column until when you mark the card as “done.” Cycle time measures the time the team works on the story.
- Lead time
-
The duration of time from when a card goes onto the backlog until you release the feature to the customer. Lead time is the entire time from backlog to customer use. If you have a staging area before you can move your product to production, your lead time is at least the ...
Get Create Your Successful Agile Project now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
