Metrics Reports for Kanban: Lead Time/Cycle Time/Throughput

[Evelyn Dieppa]

Hello!

I have just started measuring the following 3 Kanban metrics for one of the development teams I lead. 

Lead Time - from Create Date to Resolution Date

Cycle Time - from the moment issue gets picked up out of "to-do" into "in progress"

Throughput - # of issues closed per month 

Lead time and throughput are easy. I can use fields in Jira. I just create a Jira filter, extract the data I need, pull it into Excel and create easy Pivot tables. 

What I need help with is Cycle Time. Is there any way in Jira that whenever an issue moves from one particular status (To Do) to another (In Progress), that a field is updated like "Date Picked Up"? 

This would be a time saver as I'm doing this  now manually. 

Cheers,

[Udo Brand]

One idea would be to use cloning. So you create an issue for facility A (a custom field of type select list). Then you take this issue and clone it > change facility to B > clone it again > change facilty to C ...

So you could end up with one issue for each facility.