¶62 Vacation PBI
The team had been doing Scrum for a long time now and its velocity had stabilized around 100, running one-week Sprints. Summer was coming around and Sue, one of the five team members, was about to go on vacation. Sue was there for Sprint Planning on the last day before her vacation started. The team was trying to determine its forecast for the next Sprint. “Sue is going to be gone,” said Dan Blooming, the ScrumMaster, “so we should reduce our velocity to 80.” Everyone nodded in agreement. “But we should also try this new kaizen of pair programming.”
A week later, when the team finished, they had completed 120 estimation points ...
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