Avg Member Review Time, as it appears in the Team Overview tab, measures the reviewer side of code review: how quickly this person reacts to other people's open PRs once those PRs exist. It's the per-member lever on review pickup latency.
What it measures
For PRs in the period where this member is not the author, Leanmote finds the earliest action this member took on the PR — a comment, a commit on the PR's branch, or an approval — and computes the gap from PR creation to that earliest action. The metric is the average of that gap across all such PRs.
How Leanmote calculates it
earliest_action(member, pr) = min(
first_comment_by(member, pr),
first_commit_by(member, pr),
first_approval_by(member, pr)
)
avg_member_review_time(member) = sum((earliest_action - pr.created_at) / 3600)
/ count(prs where member acted)
with member != author, in period
Aggregation — straight mean of per-PR durations.
Unit — hours.
Working vs calendar hours — calendar hours. Working-hours mode does not apply.
Self-review — excluded. PRs the member authored don't contribute.
Bots and drafts — bot accounts are not auto-excluded. Use team mapping if needed.
Other "review time" view in the app
A different per-person review-time number lives inside the Bottleneck Insights modal. That view measures the author perspective — how long the author waits for someone to respond to their PRs — and is computed differently. The two numbers can disagree for the same person and that's expected; pick whichever side of the question you're asking and stick to one place.
How to interpret it
Lower is better — fewer hours from PR open to this member's first action.
Compare against the team median. A member persistently 2× the team median is worth a workload conversation before any other conclusion.
Read alongside Reviewer load (Reviewer metrics → Sharing Index) to separate "slow on a heavy queue" from "slow on a normal queue".
What to do about it
If pickup is consistently slow for one member, redistribute the review queue or coach toward dedicated review windows.
Set explicit team SLAs for review pickup so expectations are shared.
Auto-assign reviewers from a rota — passive review queues are the most common cause of high Avg Member Review Time.
Related metrics
Reviewer metrics
Avg Member Time to Merge
Avg Member TT First Approval