agile delivery what is velocity
Velocity can be a really great tool to help in identifying problems with a team as far as blockers, bugs and problems with the practices within the team. Without looking at official definitions here's my definition of what velocity is: Velocity is an abstract measure of a teams productivity towards delivering features over time. We measure velocity by working out an average number of agile points delivered sprint-on-sprint and dividing the total number of agile points delivered over X sprints by the number of sprints it has taken to deliver them. So velocity is: Velocity = Total number of Agile Points Delivered / Number of Sprints. Let's break the velocity statement down. When we refer to velocity as an âabstract measureâ, what do we mean? To answer this question, we need to understand what makes up velocity. We said earlier it's an average of the number of agile points delivered.