13 templates
Flow metrics (CFD) templates
Cumulative flow diagrams with the flow metrics derived from the same data. Give it a date column and one cumulative count per workflow stage and it draws the stacked bands, then computes approximate WIP, average cycle time via Little's Law, throughput and flow efficiency, and marks where WIP ran away from throughput. The chart Kanban teams screenshot, with the four numbers they actually manage against.
CFD — Software Delivery Team
Ten weeks of a platform team's Kanban board, computing WIP from the commitment point, weekly throughput, Little's Law cycle time and the flow efficiency lost to the review queue.
Lean & FlowCFD — Support Ticket Queue
Three weeks of inbound support tickets sampled on alternate weekdays: resolution holds near 236 a week while the untriaged pile swells from 18 to 138 and the working WIP limit is breached.
Operations & OpsCFD — Hiring Requisition Pipeline
Eight months of open engineering requisitions from approval to filled, computing time-to-fill via Little's Law and exposing the interview loop as the stage whose queue never stops growing.
Operations & OpsCFD — Manufacturing Cell WIP
Ten production days on an injection-moulding cell, computing a 0.3-day flow time through the cell at 77% efficiency while the raw-stock buffer ahead of it grows every single shift.
Lean & FlowCFD — Video Content Pipeline
A six-stage video studio sampled fortnightly, showing 80% flow efficiency on commissioned work while the uncommissioned idea backlog inflates from 32 to 47 titles.
Project & PlanningCFD — Hospital Bed Flow
Twelve days of emergency admissions from decision-to-admit to discharge: 3.3 days in the system at 18% flow efficiency, with the corridor wait and the delayed-discharge queue both growing daily.
Operations & OpsCFD — Mortgage Application Flow
Ten weeks of mortgage applications from submission to offer, computing a ~37-day flow time and isolating the surveyor backlog as the only band that grows every single week.
Operations & OpsCFD — ML Experiment Queue
Twelve days of a shared GPU cluster's training queue, contrasting a 4.5-day committed cycle time with a submission backlog that grows tenfold, and breaching the concurrent-training limit.
AI & PipelinesCFD — Newsroom Editorial Pipeline
Nine weeks of a features desk from pitch to publication, computing a ~33-day commissioned cycle time against 5.5 articles a week while the unread pitch pile triples.
Project & PlanningCFD — Incident Backlog Burn-down
Ten weeks of an SRE team draining a production incident backlog: every band narrows, the delivery rate climbs ~51% between halves, and no queue trips the runaway detector.
Lean & FlowCFD — Council Planning Applications
Ten weeks of householder planning applications through validation, statutory consultation and determination, showing a consultation queue that widens every week while the decision rate holds near 15 a week.
Operations & OpsCFD — Clinical Trial Site Activation
Fourteen months of site activation for a multicentre phase III oncology trial, where identification outruns activation by 31 sites and the feasibility band widens for ten consecutive months.
Research & AcademicCFD — Vulnerability Remediation Queue
Twelve fortnights of high and critical CVEs from scanner detection to verified closure, where every band widens and the remediation WIP limit of 120 is breached from the third fortnight onwards.
Risk & Reliability