How to Hack JIRA to Measure Cycle Time in 4 Easy Steps
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8 min readJun 15, 2021
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.
If we consider the very simple JIRA Kanban board above, cycle time would measure the time…