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SHADAV MOHAMMAD ANSARI PMO| ITC INFOTECH INDIA PVT. Ltd. New Delhi, Delhi, India
How do you calculate Velocity in Aglie and How can we maximize it ?
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
There is no reason to maximize velocity. Gain in velocity do not mean you will deliver faster. Is a big mistake outside there. Go to Mike Cohn related topics to understand about velocity (in my personal opinion he is the best source).
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Velocity is just a measure of what a team was able to complete in a fixed period of time. As Sergio indicates it has no direct relationship to delivered value. The goal should not be to maximize velocity as that could happen at the cost of quality or team morale.

You can measure velocity in terms of story points or in terms of the number of work items completed if a team has matured to the point where their work items are mostly all the same (small) size.

Kiron
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Wade Harshman Scrum Master| GDIT Indianapolis, In, United States
Velocity is simply the amount of work completed in an iteration. How you calculate it depends on how you measure your team's work.

You can try to increase your velocity- the amount of work done in a sprint- but you need to keep this strictly internal to the team. If people outside the team see your velocity, they will fixate on it and create a situation detrimental to your team. Next, your team will focus on a metric instead of meaningful value because they want to please that person outside the team, and they will likely change their estimates to artificially increase velocity.

Average Velocity is more meaningful to most teams. It shows the amount of work you can expect to accomplish in a normal iteration, which gives you empirical limits you can set when you commit to work in sprint planning.
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Drew Craig Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard Philadelphia, Pa, United States
Agree with colleagues above. 'Maximizing' is a natural progression to a maturing team.
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Aaron Porter
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IT Director| Blade HQ Payson, UT, United States
Velocity will vary by team. As team members work together and gain more experience they will, generally speaking, be able to deliver more in less time, but eventually they hit the point where they can't go any faster. If your goal is to deliver faster, deliver smaller increments and do less/focus.
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Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada
The only caveat I would add to Aaron's comment is that there is such a thing as too small an increment.

Smaller increments force you to break down your stories further. That means you spend more time grooming your increment backlog, thus reducing your increment's value generating time.
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Aug 27, 2019 6:38 PM
Kiron Bondale
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Better yet, skip sprints altogether and adopt a continuous flow delivery model...
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Aug 27, 2019 10:51 AM
Replying to Stéphane Parent
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The only caveat I would add to Aaron's comment is that there is such a thing as too small an increment.

Smaller increments force you to break down your stories further. That means you spend more time grooming your increment backlog, thus reducing your increment's value generating time.
Better yet, skip sprints altogether and adopt a continuous flow delivery model...
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SHADAV MOHAMMAD ANSARI PMO| ITC INFOTECH INDIA PVT. Ltd. New Delhi, Delhi, India
Clear Now... Thanks for all of you to share your views on this.

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