The Issue

As a manager of a software development team, you are always under pressure to deliver value to the customer.  In order to do that more effectively, you monitor your Cycle Time and work to keep it as low as possible so that features get into production as quickly as possible.  

One of the issues that can be a bump in the road towards meeting that goal is Review Time. Review Time is defined as the time between the first comment on your code and the time it is merged back into the main branch.  It’s the third phase of Cycle Time and keeping it inside proper boundaries is critical to keeping quality code moving through the pipeline.