throughput

A measure of how many items a process handles or completes.

Key Points

  • Reflects how many work items flow through a process; higher values indicate more items completed.
  • Commonly tracked in Kanban and other flow-based approaches to understand delivery capability.
  • Affected by WIP limits, bottlenecks, team capacity, and process efficiency.
  • Different from velocity (story points); throughput counts items, which aids simple forecasting.

Example

A Kanban team finishes 24 tickets in the last two weeks. Their throughput for that period is 24 items, showing how many work items the process completed.

PMP Example Question

A team wants to forecast delivery by counting how many work items are completed each week. Which metric should they use?

  1. Velocity
  2. Lead time
  3. Throughput
  4. Earned value

Correct Answer: C — Throughput

Explanation: Throughput is the count of items completed by the process in a given period, making it suitable for forecasting based on completed items.

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