> Velocity ignores direction making it completely useless for quantifying useful output or just about anything else Velocity is important but I think it's an o

> Velocity ignores direction making it completely useless for quantifying useful output or just about anything else Velocity is important but I think it's an orthogonal concept to quantifying useful output. In my mind, velocity is how quickly developers are able to unblock themselves and overcome obstacles. It's very possible that people can have extremely high velocity working on pointless stuff but that's not what velocity is meant to track anyway.