More PRs Open Than Close? Your Review Queue Is Growing — Cycle time can look excellent while the queue keeps growing. Google Cloud's showcase window pairs a 17-minute typical first review and a 2.6-hour typical merging time with merge efficiency of 1.77 — and across seventeen public orgs, review latency and backlog growth barely correlate at all.
Your PRs Are Approved. Why Aren't They Merging? — Everyone watches review latency. Almost nobody watches the gap between the green checkmark and the merge. Across public organizations showcases, median approval-to-merge is minutes, but the P90 tail runs hours to over a day, and GitQuick's Merge Pipeline Friction signal fires on every one of them.