Cycle time is the elapsed time required for an individual process step or stage to complete.
Cycle time is the elapsed time between steps in a delivery pipeline. Because it contributes to overall lead time, shortening slow steps can help deliver customer requests sooner. section 5.4
Speeding up quality checks
A pipeline can run linting, vetting, and testing in parallel to expose problems sooner, although parallel execution costs more computing resources. A hybrid of parallel and sequential steps balances faster feedback with cost. section 5.4
Figure 5.3 Overall lead time is the time from the creation of the task to its delivery to a customer.
Use the lead-time diagram to distinguish the full customer-request-to-delivery interval from the cycle times of its individual pipeline steps. section 5.4
How Shipping Go: Develop, deliver, discuss, design, and go again covers it
How deep it goes
Defines cycle time within lead time and compares parallel, sequential, and hybrid pipeline execution without measuring specific durations.
Examples
Illustrates cycle time with customer-request delivery intervals and parallel linting, vetting, and testing stages.
What you can do after
Apply it via a pipeline by locating slow stages and choosing parallel, sequential, or hybrid execution.
How it connects
Connects cycle time with lead time, pipelines, linting, vetting, and testing.
lead timecontrasts with · Lead time is the elapsed time from the initiation, request, or availability of work until its completion or delivery.
deployment pipelinemeasured by · A sequence of automated or manual stages that builds, tests or validates, packages, and delivers software or models toward deployment.
control chartmeasured by · A control chart is a statistical process-monitoring graph that plots process measurements over time against a center line and control limits to assess variation.
batch sizeuses · Batch size is the number of items grouped together for processing or computation as a single batch.
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