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  • 1.  Does the time duration of a  Blocker on a User Story get removed from the age of the User Story?

    Posted Mar 20, 2018 02:31 PM

    Does the time duration of a Blocker get removed from the overall execution duration of the User Story that is blocked?



  • 2.  Re: Does the time duration of a  Blocker on a User Story get removed from the age of the User Story?
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    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 23, 2018 08:06 AM

    Hi Mike,

     

    I believe the time it is blocked is still counted so that an accurate record of the time the story took to complete took. 



  • 3.  Re: Does the time duration of a  Blocker on a User Story get removed from the age of the User Story?

    Posted Mar 25, 2018 03:45 PM

    West is correct, all measurements of story aging like cycle time and lead time include time in the Blocked state. If you wanted to measure cycle time with Blocked time and time in the Ready (wait) state included then you're looking for "flow efficiency". If you need one then you can find an (unsupported) app that measures flow efficiency at GitHub - RallyTechServices/cycle-time-apps: Cycle Time related apps . Hope that helps.