Wednesday, November 5, 2008

# 6 Sprint Velocity

Sprint velocity calculations help the team to learn and continuously improve.

Sprint velocity = (work units completed / work units committed) during the sprint * 100

During the initial sprints, it is quite likely that teams can fail becuase they either over committed work or under committed. In the former case, at the end of the sprint, the team might not have completed the work committed at the start of the sprint. In the latter case, the sprint will get over before the sprint end date. After some learning through a couple of sprints, the team will learn to complete what they committed within the stipulated time frame. At that time, the sprint velocity calculation will show 100%.

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