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| title: "PR Pickup Time" |
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| PR Pickup Time |
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| ## What is this metric? |
| The time it takes from when a PR is issued until the first comment is added to that PR. |
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| ## Why is it important? |
| PR Pickup Time shows how engaged your team is in collaborative work by identifying the delay in picking up PRs. |
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| ## Which dashboard(s) does it exist in? |
| - Engineering Throughput and Cycle Time |
| - Engineering Throughput and Cycle Time - Team View |
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| ## How is it calculated? |
| <b>Data Sources Required</b> |
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| This metric relies on PR/MRs collected from GitHub or GitLab. |
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| <b>Transformation Rules Required</b> |
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| N/A |
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| <b>SQL Queries</b> |
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| ## How to improve? |
| 1. Use DevLake's dashboard to monitor your delivery progress; |
| 2. Have a habit to check for hanging PRs regularly; |
| 3. Set up alerts for your communication tools (e.g. Slack, Lark) when new PRs are issued. |
