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by choeger 1947 days ago
In my experience, you need both numbers. A customer naturally wants to know when a change arrives in production. I call this "latency", you call it cycle time, but maybe there is a small difference because I also try to include the time it takes to even start development. But a customer also wants to know about effort, often. Because usually effort is what gets billed. So a 10min (realistically, the bill we be about an hour, won't it ;) ) change has a five day latency, which is actually a relatively fast pace for a legacy system with many different stakeholders.
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Good point, I agree that you need both numbers. This story is only about the latency.