title: “PR Coding Time” description: > PR Coding Time sidebar_position: 2

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?

Data Sources Required

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

Transformation Rules Required

N/A

SQL Queries

How to improve?

Divide coding tasks into workable and manageable pieces.