How do you treat weekends in metrics?

Whether weekends are included in duration metrics depends on your organization's weekend exclusion setting. When weekends are included, a pull request cycle time of 14 days means two full calendar weeks.

You can exclude weekends under Organization settings → General → Weekend Exclusion by enabling Exclude weekends from duration metrics. When enabled, Swarmia removes Saturdays and Sundays from supported duration metrics.

The setting applies to pull request cycle time and its stages, as well as issue cycle time. These durations follow the setting in code and issue insights, detailed pull request and issue views, key metrics, the Max Pull Request Age and Max Issue Age working agreements, signals, daily digests, and issue summaries. It also changes the small pull request throughput chart from an average per calendar day to an average per business day. The number of merged pull requests doesn't change.

Existing and historical records are recalculated using the current setting. The selected reporting timeframe and the records included in it stay the same. For example, a 90-day report still covers 90 calendar days; only the durations within the report change.

Weekend boundaries follow the timezone used by the view. Most metrics use the organization's timezone, although Issue Flow currently uses the viewer's browser timezone and signals use UTC. This can cause small differences around weekend boundaries.

What isn't excluded?

Only entire Saturdays and Sundays are removed. Evenings, public holidays, vacations, and other non-working hours still count. Custom workweeks and organization-specific weekend days aren't currently supported.

The setting doesn't affect DORA metrics, counts such as merged pull requests or completed issues, WIP counts, or reporting cohorts. Flow efficiency, Focus and FTE calculations, timesheets, and scheduling rules have their own business-day logic and don't follow this setting.

Which metrics always exclude weekends?

Time to first review and the Max Pull Request Review Time working agreement always exclude weekends, regardless of the organization setting. Pull request review reminders also have their own weekend handling that is independent of this setting.