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Should we take into account scope changes to the Sprint to measure the team efficiency?
Velocity is not a metric for team performance. It's a measurable dimension you can attach to the work being performed in the sprint so that the team can forecast future work in future sprints (see the ...
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Should we take into account scope changes to the Sprint to measure the team efficiency?
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Your management team needs to be educated on how Scrum works, and to modify its key performance indicators to be outcome-based rather than effort-based. Its current approach to metrics is not ...
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Should we take into account scope changes to the Sprint to measure the team efficiency?
In the Scrum framework, the team does not commit to a body of work. The commitment made by the Developers is to the Sprint Goal, which is created through a collaborative effort between the Product ...
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How should we capture "non-implementation" work?
There are typically two ways to use velocity with sprints:
Measure the team's capacity to do work - include all the work the team is doing in your calculations
Measure the team's capacity to deliver ...
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How do you plan for Production Support in velocity-based sprint planning
If the production support overhead is reasonably consistent, then when using velocity you don't need to do anything at all.
The amount of planned sprint work the team gets done will deduce due to the ...
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How should we capture "non-implementation" work?
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This question is a close duplicate of What to do with work not on the board?. In my answer to that question, I articulate CodeGnome's Law of Transparency℠: "No invisible work, ever!" ...
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Team Velocity and Increasing Capacity
I assume the management is interested in increased capacity within the same team (i.e. delivering more with the same people). This can only happen if you have significant room for your team's flow ...
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How should we capture "non-implementation" work?
Why do you need to capture this type of work to predict velocity?
Velocity is the measure of getting valuable work done. You can measure velocity in points, stories, or whatever else. Whatever your ...
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How do you plan for Production Support in velocity-based sprint planning
Understanding Velocity
How would a team plan for production support in a velocity-based sprint planning model?
"Velocity" is often used in story-point based estimation processes, but is ...
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How do you plan for Production Support in velocity-based sprint planning
The best predictor of today's weather is yesterday's weather. Velocity-based sprint planning, as you call it, works like that.
If the team capacity and sprint length don't change, if the team does the ...
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