#cycle-time

When WIP becomes high, you can purge WIP by decreasing the batch size of your jobs. A way to achieve this is to shed the requirements of your jobs.

Queues create many forms of economic waste: longer cycle time, increased risk, more variability, more overhead, lower quality, and less motivation.

Low-queue states are more probable than high-queue states, but high-queue states are more important because they delay more jobs.

When you set a limit on WIP, you create positive and negative effects.

A high number of working in the process leads to a high queue capacity utilization, which causes problems such as a higher cycle time.

Flow efficiency is the proportion of time where the team effectively spent active work within the total cycle time of the task.

If a company takes ten days to deliver a feature to its customer on average, its cycle time is ten days.