Lead Time Trend by Issue Type(4.3.10)

Lead time is the time from when an issue is created to when it is first delivered. Tracking how lead time changes over time, broken down by issue type, shows whether specific categories of work are taking more or less time to deliver; the events show that the time moved, not what moved it.

What you can conclude

• A rising lead time trend for Bugs means the bugs delivered in recent weeks had been open longer than earlier ones; a reviewer could ask whether the bugs changed, or the time given to them.
• A falling lead time trend for Stories means stories took less time from creation to delivery; the chart does not show whether the work, the requirements or the team changed.
• Diverging lead time trends between issue types (some falling, some rising) mean the time to deliver moved for one kind of work and not for another.

How this chart works

Multi-line chart showing weekly average lead time (days from creation to first delivered resolution) per issue type. Each point is one issue type in one week across all projects in scope, weighted by how many issues each project delivered that week—so the line is a portfolio figure, not any single project's. Projects delivering nothing in a week contribute nothing to that point rather than counting as a zero. Issues never delivered leave the timing and are counted as abandoned in the week of their first abandonment, so a week of pure backlog cleanup shows zero delivered with a nonzero abandoned count. Lead time runs from the creation MetaFrazo recorded, so an issue moved to another project keeps its original creation. An issue created before MetaFrazo was installed, or whose creation MetaFrazo did not record, is left out of the averages and of the abandoned count rather than timed from a later event, which would understate how long it took; Weekly Lead Time Trend leaves out the same issues. Use the date and project filters to track specific teams or periods.

The week in progress is shown at its value so far. Because the week is not yet complete, it covers only the issues delivered so far and can move in either direction as the week closes. The Avg Lead Time card above reads the latest complete week instead, so the two can legitimately disagree on the most recent point.