Lead Time for Changes measures the velocity of software delivery. It is used to get a better understanding of the DevOps team’s cycle time and to find out how an increase of requests is handled.
To measure Lead Time for Changes, two pieces of data (or timestamps) are required: The exact time of the commit and the exact time of the deployment – in other words, the time from start to finish of a product the average time is then used as an indicator for overall performance.