How to Hack JIRA to Measure Cycle Time in 4 Easy Steps

Abby Allen
Geek Culture
Published in
8 min readJun 15, 2021

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What is Cycle Time?

Cycle Time, the time it takes for a user story or other task to go through the software development lifecycle, is a common metric used in Kanban. It replaces velocity as a measure of efficiency and predictability for a team.

An example kanban board from Atlassian
Image Credit: Atlassian — Agile Product Management

If we consider the very simple JIRA Kanban board above, cycle time would measure the time…

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Abby Allen
Geek Culture

Abby Allen is a user-focused product manager, engineer, entrepreneur, and mom based in Minneapolis, MN.