Comment by vasco
16 hours ago
If all things considered within cycle time - as you correctly say - indicate a developer's forecast for delivery timelines, and one developer over a large enough period of time working on the same codebase has half the cycle time as another, does that really tell you nothing?
Assume you're in a team where work is distributed uniformly and not some of this faster person only picking up small items.
No, it doesn't tell you anything. Someone is consistently delivering half the tickets compared to another person. Are they slow, lazy or etc? Or are they working on difficult tickets that the other person wouldn't even be able to tackle? Cycle time doesn't tell you anything about what's behind the number.
> Someone is consistently delivering half the tickets compared to another person
So it does tell you something. You also nicely avoided the condition I gave you which is, the team picks up similar tickets and one person doesn't just pickup easy tickets. Assume there's a team lead that isn't blind.
Work is never distributed uniformly, that's a silly assumption.