Flow Metrics: Cycle Time, WIP, Flow Efficiency & Little's Law
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In this lesson
You measure the Checkout team's flow over four weeks in March: cycle time per item, work in progress on eight snapshot days, flow efficiency, and a Little's law cross-check.
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