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Velocity

Meaning in project management, with examples

/vəˈlɑːsəti/nounCommon term

In project management, velocity means: The amount of work an agile team usually completes in one sprint, often measured as the total story points of the finished items.

In Turkish: hız, ekip hızı, sprint hızı

How it is used

Used to plan how much work fits into future sprints and to forecast release dates. Teams track, measure and stabilise their velocity. It is meant for a team's own planning, not for comparing different teams.

Example sentences

  1. Our average velocity is about 30 points, so 45 points in one sprint is not realistic.

  2. Velocity dropped this sprint because two people were on holiday.

Common collocations

  • team velocity
  • average velocity
  • track velocity
  • velocity chart
  • story pointsA unit agile teams use to estimate the relative size of work, combining effort, complexity and uncertainty instead of counting hours.
  • sprintA short, fixed period, often two weeks and never longer than a month, in which a Scrum team completes an agreed set of work.
  • burndown chartA chart that shows how much work is left over time, usually in a sprint or release, so the team can see if it will finish everything by the end date.
  • sprint planningThe meeting at the start of each sprint where the Scrum team agrees on a sprint goal, chooses the backlog items it will deliver and plans how to do the work.

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