A kanban board is a physical of virtual board designed to help visualize work, limit work-in-progress, and maximize efficiency. It consists of columns designated to some stages of kanban cycle and tasks located floating through columns.

Kanban lead time is the time between a request being made and a task being released. It’s the total time the client is waiting for a task to be delivered.

Cycle time indicates how fast individual tasks on your Kanban board are being completed.

• cycle time - is the total amount of elapsed time between when a task starts and when a task finishes
• throughput - the total amount of work delivered in a certain time period (number of tasks)
• WIP - the actual work-in-progress time

Cycle Time = WIP/Throughput

• Maximise Customer Satisfaction: Kanban Cycle Time
• What to Measure and Why: Kanban Metrics