Velocity Flashcards
Velocity
Velocity is a metric used in Agile and Scrum to measure the amount of work a team completes during a sprint. It is typically calculated based on the sum of story points, hours, or other effort units associated with the user stories or tasks finished during a sprint.
Velocity helps teams understand their capacity for future sprints, enabling more accurate sprint planning and forecasting. For example, if a team completes 30 story points in one sprint and maintains a similar pace over multiple sprints, their average velocity becomes a benchmark for estimating how much work they can handle in upcoming iterations.
It is important to note that velocity is a team-specific metric and should not be used to compare different teams. Instead, it is a tool for tracking progress and improving predictability within the same team over time.
you name some of the metrics used by the scrum team to measure the work done metrics that help to measure the work done by scrum teams include
sprint goal success
escape defects defect density
team velocity
sprint burndown
time to market
roi
capital redeployment
customer satisfaction and many others
