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Scrum Cycle Time helps understand how fast a business need is transformed to a value delivered to a client. It can be, to some extent, an idea of the "Time to Market" measure. Knowing such thing, one has more flexibility in estimations and planning. Usually, the shorter this measure, the faster things go to market (i.e. to production).
Questions it answers
- how much time, on average, an issue of a specific type spends in a delivery pipeline
- how fast a business need is transformed to a value delivered to a client
- how throughput can be evaluated
- how stable team's flow is
- how predictable delivery is
How metric works
Chart overview
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- Issue ID
- Type
- Priority
- Summary
What metric means
- Unexpected blockers or dependencies during Sprint execution
- Not ready for development backlog is taken into work
- Low productivity due to reduced agility
- Uncontrolled scope volatility
- Too many dependent teams or stakeholders
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Calculation
Schematically, here is the idea how this metric is calculated:
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