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Make sense of queues, work in progress, forecasting, and team capacity. These concepts explain why a busy team can still struggle to finish work.
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2 termsLead time
Lead time is the elapsed time between a request entering a workflow and the requested outcome being delivered. In software teams, the start may be prioritization or commitment and the finish may be deployment, so the definition must be stated explicitly.
Flow and capacity planningLead-time distribution
A lead-time distribution shows how elapsed time varies from the chosen demand boundary to the chosen completion boundary. It describes the range and frequency of outcomes rather than one representative average.
Flow and capacity planning