This. I've found that, whatever the project is, the velocity of a team in terms what they define as a "task" is pretty constant, surprisingly so even. In the en

This. I've found that, whatever the project is, the velocity of a team in terms what they define as a "task" is pretty constant, surprisingly so even. In the end, just counting the outstanding tasks proved to be a good estimator of where we'd end up at the deadline.