KanbanStats III: throughput
January 4, 2019
UPDATE I have learned new stuff. There are a better ways. Find the update here
Lead time is awesome to track and try to improve. In fact, it’s something that will guide you to a lot of improvements and should be front-and-centre of your process metrics.
But that says very little about how much that gets done per time unit. Doing one thing in a day, fast and with quality, and then nothing for the rest of the month means that no other things get done.
Let’s start to track another metric; throughput or
the amount of material or items passing through a system or process.
With the data, we have this is pretty easy to get hold of.