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title: "PR Coding Time"
description: >
  PR Coding Time
sidebar_position: 2
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## What is this metric? 
The time it takes from the first commit until a PR is issued. 

## Why is it important?
It is recommended that you keep every task on a workable and manageable scale for a reasonably short amount of coding time. The average coding time of most engineering teams is around 3-4 days.

## Which dashboard(s) does it exist in?
- Engineering Throughput and Cycle Time
- Engineering Throughput and Cycle Time - Team View


## How is it calculated?
<b>Data Sources Required</b>

This metric relies on PR/MRs collected from GitHub or GitLab.

<b>Transformation Rules Required</b>

N/A

<b>SQL Queries</b>


## How to improve?
Divide coding tasks into workable and manageable pieces.