id: 12B1,2
title: Cycle time.
date: 2025-02-01

Cycle time.

The time it takes to do something start to finish.

In software development, we usually separate the coding portion into code cycle time—time from first commit to deployment—away from the lead time of design and ideation, as these are squishier activities.rD12

This metric puts pressure on merge request and team process sizes to speed up sub-cycles within the work.rD12

Time to open is correlated most strongly with code lead time.