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Cycle time vs lead time: which metric actually predicts shipping velocity?
Most teams track the wrong number. Here's how to read your data to find the real bottleneck hiding in your sprint.
LLena Park · 2026-05-18 · 8
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A deep dive into Velo's GitHub sync: how PR-to-issue mapping works
Branch naming conventions, webhook payloads, and the three matching strategies that auto-close issues on merge.
Wei Zhang · 2026-05-086
We ran no-estimate sprints for three months. Here's what we learned.
Removing story points from our planning process felt reckless. The data at the end was surprising.
Priya Sharma · 2026-04-245
Designing the timeline view: 11 iterations to get dependency chains right
The gantt chart is one of the most information-dense UIs we've built. Here is the design history.
Sara Chen · 2026-04-107
How to use the workload view to stop burning out your best engineer
Uneven task distribution kills morale before it kills velocity. The workload view makes the invisible visible.
Marcus Reid · 2026-03-294