Velocity

Should teams receive partial credit on nearly finished stories when calculating their sprint …

It isn’t just people who benefit when teams work at a sustainable pace. Overall velocity is higher …

Velocity can be great for predicting how much a team can deliver in a given period. But it needs to …

It’s quite common for a team to have a bit of unfinished work at the end of an agile sprint or …

An important consideration in capacity-driven planning is how full to fill the sprint. To answer …

The problem with velocity-driven sprint planning is that velocity is simply too variable to be …

There are two general approaches to planning sprints: velocity-driven planning and capacity-driven …

To see how this applies to an agile project, consider the issue of whether a team should earn …

Happy New Year! It's resolution time. A ScrumMaster may want to resolve to praise the team more often.

In this session we will shatter the myth that agile teams can't plan. We'll start by looking at the …

Many of you work in a dedicated in-house team, but some of you contract with companies for Scrum …

Estimating is a way of buying knowledge. If having the additional knowledge will lead to different …

You know that before the development team writes their first line of code, they need a funded …

Maybe you work for a vendor who must bid for work in response to an RFP. Or perhaps your company …

You’ve probably heard some people say, “Agile teams don’t plan.” Nothing could be further from the …

When will you be done? Though this question doesn’t go away on agile projects, it does get a little …

Resampling is based on the idea that things we’ll observe in the future will be similar to the …

How do we estimate how many hours it will take to deliver a given product backlog if we have no …

Doing performance testing creates some amount of overhead on the team (the tax). This overhead or …

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We've already overloaded the word backlog with product backlog and sprint backlog. Why confuse …

As a measure of the amount of work completed in an iteration, velocity works extremely well when …

Some teams may respond to the pressure for their abstract measure of velocity to increase by …

Rolling lookahead planning is a useful technique for large projects or any project with external …

By producing a single chart that shows both a team's rate of progress and the product backlog, we …

A question I get frequently is what to do with tasks that do not belong to a particular user story …

In seeking to improve how we develop software, we continually inspect and adapt. While thinking …

Too much work goes into use cases to not employ them to their full potential. By assigning points …