{"id":78761,"date":"2026-07-12T02:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bangla.sitestree.com\/?p=78761"},"modified":"2026-07-12T02:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:09:42","slug":"kanban-flow-metrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bangla.sitestree.com\/?p=78761","title":{"rendered":"Kanban: Flow metrics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Flow metrics<\/strong> measure how smoothly and quickly work moves through a workflow, especially in <strong>Kanban<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Metric<\/th><th>Definition<\/th><th>Example<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Lead time<\/strong><\/td><td>Total time from when work is requested until it is delivered.<\/td><td>Request Monday, delivered Friday = 5 days<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Cycle time<\/strong><\/td><td>Time from when active work starts until it is completed.<\/td><td>Work starts Wednesday, done Friday = 3 days<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Throughput<\/strong><\/td><td>Number of work items completed in a period.<\/td><td>12 tickets completed per week<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Work in Progress (WIP)<\/strong><\/td><td>Number of items currently being worked on.<\/td><td>3 items in In Progress, 2 in Review<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>WIP age<\/strong><\/td><td>How long an unfinished item has remained in progress.<\/td><td>One story has been open for 9 days<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Blocked time<\/strong><\/td><td>Time an item cannot move forward because of an impediment.<\/td><td>Waiting 3 days for API access<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Queue time<\/strong><\/td><td>Time an item waits before the next stage begins.<\/td><td>Story waits 4 days for code review<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Flow efficiency<\/strong><\/td><td>Percentage of total lead time spent actively working rather than waiting.<\/td><td>2 active days out of 10 total days = 20%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Bottleneck<\/strong><\/td><td>A workflow stage where work accumulates and slows delivery.<\/td><td>Review has 8 items while Done has only 1<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Simple teaching explanation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lead time measures customer waiting. Cycle time measures active workflow time. Throughput measures how many items are finished. WIP and queue measures show where work may be getting stuck.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Example workflow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Requested \u2192 To Do \u2192 In Progress \u2192 Review \u2192 Done<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Lead time:<\/strong> Requested \u2192 Done<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cycle time:<\/strong> In Progress \u2192 Done<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Throughput:<\/strong> Number moved to Done per week<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>WIP:<\/strong> Number currently inside active workflow stages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The purpose of flow metrics is not to make people appear busy. It is to help the team reduce waiting, expose bottlenecks, and deliver value more predictably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">REF: AI Tools\/ChatGPT as is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flow metrics measure how smoothly and quickly work moves through a workflow, especially in Kanban. Metric Definition Example Lead time Total time from when work is requested until it is delivered. Request Monday, delivered Friday = 5 days Cycle time Time from when active work starts until it is completed. Work starts Wednesday, done Friday &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"http:\/\/bangla.sitestree.com\/?p=78761\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1661],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile-","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":78773,"url":"http:\/\/bangla.sitestree.com\/?p=78773","url_meta":{"origin":78761,"position":0},"title":"define: Metrics: cycle time, lead time, throughput for kanabn","author":"Sayed","date":"July 12, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"For Kanban, these three metrics measure flow \u2014 how smoothly work moves from request to completion. 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