Lead Time — how long work really takes, from commit to done
"How long does work take here?" should have a real answer, not a shrug. Avium measures lead time from the gate you actually commit at — through to done — across every ticket.
The question every stakeholder asks — and nobody can answer
"If we start this today, when will it be done?" Everyone asks it; almost nobody answers it with data. The honest answer is buried in your tickets — when each one actually started, when it actually shipped — but it's never aggregated, so you answer from gut feel and recent memory. The estimate misses, and the next planning meeting runs on the same vibes.
The data to answer it precisely has been in your tracker the whole time. It just never got measured the same way twice.
How teams try to measure lead time today
Every approach either measures the wrong span or hides the part that hurts:
- Created-to-resolved in a spreadsheet — but "created" isn't when you committed; tickets can sit in the backlog for months first, so the number is meaningless.
- A built-in chart that hardcodes the start at ticket creation — no way to say "measure from when we actually pulled it into the sprint."
- Eyeballing a few recent tickets and calling them representative — until one slow outlier blows up the release and nobody saw it coming.
- An average with no distribution — "about two weeks" hides that 1 in 10 takes six. Stakeholders feel the P90, not the mean.
How Avium measures lead time
Avium reads your real transition history and computes it the same way every time:
- Configurable start phase — measure from the gate your team actually commits at (Backlog Refined, Sprint Committed, Ready for Dev), not a hardcoded "Created." Different teams commit at different gates; each picks its own.
- True "done" — uses the canonical resolution date, falling back to the first transition into a Done-category status, so closed-then-reopened work is measured honestly.
- Distribution, not just an average — P50 and P90, so you can say "half ship in 8 days, 9 in 10 within 20" — the number stakeholders actually feel.
- Computed from your real data (Jira today, or any work management tool) the moment it's connected — no manual export; recomputes as data changes.
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