Total Active Time aggregates the time the whole team spent actively working on tasks during the selected period. It's the team-level counterpart to per-member Done Active Time and Working Time.
What it measures
Sum of active-state durations across the tasks the team completed in the period. Work still in flight does not contribute: the calculation runs over the done set only, so a task that is halfway through the period adds nothing until it finishes.
How Leanmote calculates it
total_active_time = sum(time_in_active_states(i)) for items completed by this team in the period
Active states are defined in your workflow mapping (typically
in_progress,in_review,qa).Waiting states are excluded — those are reported in Total Waiting Time.
How to interpret it
Use as a denominator for productivity ratios — Throughput per active hour, items per active week.
Total Active Time growing without Throughput growing means each item is consuming more active time. Slice work or remove blockers.
Total Active Time much smaller than total elapsed time means the team is spending most of its workflow time waiting. Pair with Flow Efficiency.
What to do about it
Don't aim to maximize this. More active hours doesn't equal more value.
Use it for capacity planning: "we deliver X items per Y total active hours."
Related metrics
Total Waiting Time
Flow Efficiency
Working Time
Done Active Time