Posts tagged: cycle-time

• Same Code, More Pull Requests: Why Your PR Metrics Need Context — Feature merges, release promotions, and backports can change PR throughput and latency without changing review performance. Check the target branches behind the numbers.
• Your Cycle Time Is One Number. Your PR Pipeline Has Four Stages. — A July 2026 CMU/Stanford study of 196,212 pull requests had to split the wait into stages before it could say where delivery time actually goes. GitQuick's Pipeline view does the same per org — and across eighteen public showcase orgs, the stage that looks fastest is often just the one with the most bots in it.