Our organization is starting to talk about measuring Cycle Time and Lead Time on our software engineering stories. It's just an observation, but few people seem to understand these measurement concepts, but everyone is talking about them. This is a bad omen... wish I could help illustrate these terms. Because I doubt the measurements will be very accurate if the community doesn't understand when to start the clock, and just as important - when to stop it. [For the nature of confusion around this terms compare and contrast these: Agile Alliance Glossary ; Six Sigma ; KanbanTool.com ; Lean Glossary .] The team I'm working with had a toy basket ball goal over their Scrum board... like many cheep toys the rim broke. Someone bought a superior mini goal, it's a nice heavy quarter inch plastic board with a spring loaded rim - not a cheep toy. The team used "Command Strips" to mount it but they didn't hold for long. The team convinced me th...