Measuring coordination cost
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In this lesson
measure how much delivery time goes to waiting for other teams.
Planned topics
- Look at cross-team dependencies per change, handoffs, queues, and wait time.
- Sources: ticket history, pull-request reviews across teams, release calendars, incident links.
- Lead time split into working time and waiting time shows the true cost.
- Measure before proposing; data stops the debate from being about opinions.
Draft outline details
Demonstration
a table per team: changes in the last quarter, share needing another team, median wait for that team, top three teams waited on.
Check your understanding
What shows coordination cost best?
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Wait time and the share of changes needing another team.
Practice
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