Velocity is a useful engineering management metric, but solely for the Product Owner's discretion in informing the Business when some particular functionality o

Velocity is a useful engineering management metric, but solely for the Product Owner's discretion in informing the Business when some particular functionality or set of value can be delivered, based on an ordered, story-pointed backlog. It's essentially a long term weather forecast. Don't plan your beach vacation for November; don't plan to launch Product Feature X before we could have it done. "Velocity" makes it sound like it's measuring your productivity now, but it's more of a general forecast of the future. And absolutely nobody should be looking at it but the PO.