u/Alternative_Paint528

so i lead a small dev team thats all on azure devops and ive been staring at our own process lately trying to figure out where all the time actually goes between a story hitting the backlog and it being implemented and merged

curious how other teams deal with it. like what does that path actually look like for you in practice? and where does the time go, is it the boring well defined stories or the genuinely hard ones?

also have you tried anything to speed it up (copilot, random scripts, some tool) and did it actually stick, or did everyone quietly go back to doing it by hand

i‘m new to this role as a product owner and just tryingto figure out if this annoys everyone or just us lol.