The Weekly ReBoot - Mini Hack #16 Measure your Cycle Time

Well today it’s another mini hack and we’re talking Cycle time folks, what is it? Why measure it? How do measure it? You should, because this one simple trick could unlock a bunch of potential improvements for you and your team.

I was inspired to record this mini hack, and perhaps a small teaser, I caught up with Adam Boas last week and that interview will be coming soon, one of the things he spoke of had me face palming straight away and the following Monday I was annoying people all over the place asking what their cycle time is.

Cycle Time is the time it takes a piece of work to get from first being worked on to being delivered.

Measuring cycle time can tell you so much about how effective your team is, how you might ask? Let us count the ways….