VSD - Adding "Flow efficiency" metrics - Total items completed / Items in progress ("Stream efficiency")

Problem to solve

As a software leader, I need to understand the entire work process that delivers value to customers so I can optimize the SDLC. For this optimization user need insights about potential bottlenecks in their value stream.

Bottlenecks can be separated into 3 categories:

  1. Blocked time
  2. Wait time
  3. stagnant

Today VSA excludes in progress work items, and users don't get insights about stagnant items and unblocking them

  • Flow efficiency is an essential metric that is useful for highlighting potential bottlenecks in your value stream. Waste that impacts efficiency can be separated into two categories:
    • Wait time
    • Blocked time
  • Some users have created workarounds such as defining IDLE/Blocked stages using VSA custom stages... but these should be properly incorporated into the product to get the benefits of reliable metrics and data visualization

Proposal

  1. Once active_time will be available via 💡 Status Solution Validation (#368290 - closed) we can add to VSA and VSD the Flow efficiency metrics = (active_time/total_time).
  2. First MVC is to add VSD - Adding "Flow Load" metrics - work-in-prog... (#390604)
Edited by Haim Snir