Flow AnalyticsMarch 17, 2026· 3 min read

Cycle Time and Lead Time Are Now Always Correct in the Tooltip

A subtle display issue in 3.6.0 is fixed: when the Cycle Time Scatterplot was in Lead Time axis mode, the tooltip was labelling lead days as "Cycle Time". Both values are now always independently correct, regardless of which mode the chart is in.

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The Cycle Time Scatterplot can operate in two axis modes: Cycle Time mode (active start → completion) and Lead Time mode (creation → completion). Switching modes changes what the Y-axis measures and how the dots are plotted. In 3.6.0 these modes also affect the tooltip — and a bug meant the tooltip was not staying accurate when you switched.

What Was Happening

When the chart was in Lead Time mode, the tooltip's "Cycle Time" field was showing the remapped lead-time value rather than the true cycle duration. For items with a long time-in-queue (creation to active start), this made the cycle time look significantly longer than it actually was — and made it impossible to compare the two values meaningfully from the tooltip alone.

What the Tooltip Now Shows

Regardless of which axis mode the chart is in, the tooltip always shows both values independently and correctly.

  • Cycle Time: the duration from when the item entered active work to when it was completed.
  • Lead Time: the duration from when the item was created to when it was completed.
  • Both values appear together in every tooltip, in every mode.

Why Both Values Together Matter

Seeing cycle time and lead time side-by-side in a single tooltip is the fastest way to understand an item's flow efficiency. A large gap between the two tells you the item spent a long time waiting before anyone picked it up. A small gap means it moved through the system efficiently once it was started. That comparison was always the intent of having both metrics — the tooltip now makes it trivially easy.

This fix ships in Agile Analytics 3.6.0. Install the update from the VS Marketplace.

Need more than a blog explanation?

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