Learn to measure how work really flows through your team using the three core flow metrics — lead time, cycle time and throughput. Pull the numbers from your existing tracking tool, read them honestly, and use them to expose delays that velocity and story points hide.
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What you'll learn
- Define lead time, cycle time and throughput precisely and explain how they differ
- Explain why velocity and story points do not measure how fast work flows
- Calculate cycle time and throughput from state-change timestamps and apply Little's Law
- Pull flow-metric data directly from a team's existing tracking tool
- Produce a Flow Metrics Calculation Worksheet that turns raw timestamps into honest numbers
Syllabus
Why Speed Is Not What Velocity Measures
The trouble with judging delivery by outputFree preview
Lead time, cycle time and throughput defined
Measuring Flow — From Timestamps to Little's Law
How flow metrics are calculated
Pulling the data from your tracking tool
Reading the Numbers on Real IT Work
Interpreting flow metrics and forecasting
Case study — the team that looked fast
Making Flow Metrics Stick
Building your Flow Metrics Calculation Worksheet
Common traps in measuring flow