{"id":3607,"date":"2017-05-30T21:47:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T21:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.valueglide.com\/blog\/flow-efficiency\/"},"modified":"2024-03-04T16:39:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T16:39:23","slug":"flow-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.valueglide.com\/safe-scaled-agile-framework\/flow-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Flow Efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"
Flow efficiency measures how much of the overall lead time is due to waiting time: Lead Time = Value Work Time + Waiting Time.<\/p>\n
Most kanban systems separate the waiting from the doing, and calculating the overall wait time is a matter of summing up all the wait times.<\/p>\n
Here is an example<\/strong> Kanban visualisation of the value flow of the total time in all the wait states: (Waiting for Develop + Waiting for Test + Waiting for Deploy)<\/p>\n The total work time: (In Develop + In Test + Deploy)<\/p>\n Kanban System Lead Time = Total wait time + Total work time<\/p>\n Flow Efficiency = (In Develop + In Test + Deploy)\/Kanban system lead time<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n References<\/p>\n