Investigate a Slow Cycle Time

Last updated: September 2026 Your team’s Cycle Time just crept past your tolerance. This playbook walks you from “something’s wrong” […]

Interpret a High CFR Week

Last updated: September 2026 Your Change Failure Rate spiked. Before you sound the alarm, walk this playbook to figure out […]

Throughput

Throughput Number of merged PRs in the window, expressed per week per developer for cross-team comparison. Family: Output & Throughput […]

Output Score

Output Score Effort-weighted shipping rate per developer or per team. Sums the complexity of every merged PR, direct commit, and […]

Effort Score

Effort Score (Complexity) A 0.1–0.9 estimate of how complex each PR and direct commit is. Five tiers, LLM-generated, manually overrideable. […]