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velocity points is not useless. it can’t be used in isolation but points delivered by individuals is a great starting place to identify outliers in your org. ge
by foolfoolz 4y ago
velocity points is not useless. it can’t be used in isolation but points delivered by individuals is a great starting place to identify outliers in your org. generally if someone is delivering far higher or far fewer points they are making an outsized impact to the team (either positive or negative). it’s not perfect, you must take context with it, but with averages and on long time scales it’s quite reliable
- prepend 4y agoI think velocity points are useful within a team over time. They are locally useful. But they are stupid to measure across teams or to compare teams or productivity. Velocity points are just an estimating tool, not a measure of value. It’s useful to know that a team usually produces 10 points per sprint but this sprint is 5 or 20. It just lets you know if your team is producing “normal” or not. It’s useless to try to calculate that out of 20 teams the average velocity points are 10 per sprint.
- foolfoolz 4y agoyes. sprint points do not translate outside team scope
- Traubenfuchs 4y agoThey are COMPLETELY useless and are actively gamed by clever devs to reduce workload and reduce output expectations. I always nudge fellow devs to overestimate the tickets I will be working on by overstating the complexity and risks, sometimes I prime them with higher numbers, etc.