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Using Jira Cycle Time to Improve Efficiency

By David O'Donoghue

April 1, 2025

Cycle time is a crucial metric in project management and agile methodologies that measures the amount of time it takes to complete a task, once ...

Improving Software Delivery

By David O'Donoghue

January 28, 2025

The Power of Flow Metrics This article is the fifth in a series of related articles that started with Engineering Leaderships Biggest Challenge – Friction ...

Balancing Delivery Investment

By David O'Donoghue

August 19, 2024

Where Does the Time Go? In a previous post, Engineering Leaderships Biggest Challenge, I highlighted the frustrations that can exist between business stakeholders and engineering ...

Demand and Capacity – The Laws of Physics Must Apply

By David O'Donoghue

July 29, 2024

Balancing Demand and Capacity At some point in my career, I discovered that having an aggressive “can do” approach leads to much better outcomes for ...

When Engineering is a Black Box, Make Work and Workload Visible

By David O'Donoghue

July 22, 2024

Problem – Our work is invisible In software development, one of the biggest yet often overlooked issues that we experience is the invisibility of our ...

Amending Jira Workflows to Improve Flow Metrics

By David O'Donoghue

June 21, 2024

Introduction Jira workflows guide issues through the various stages of your process, from creation to completion. However, in many organisations, teams can take a casual ...

Flow Efficiency – The Most Important Metric When Developing Software?

By David O'Donoghue

May 14, 2024

Developers use many different metrics to measure code health, team productivity and delivery progress. Code coverage, Velocity, Cycle Time and Change Failure Rate are all ...