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A Scrum Book
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A Scrum Book

by Jeff Sutherland, James O. Coplien
August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
574 pages
17h 10m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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¶70 Updated Velocity

Confidence stars: *

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Shift gears only after you’ve established the ability to cruise at a new level.

...you’ve started calibrating your velocity (see Notes on Velocity) by using ¶67 Running Average Velocity, but find that it is still difficult to achieve good ¶46 Sprint production forecasts.

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An average of recent past velocities isn’t necessarily a predictable velocity.

You want the velocity to reflect the team’s current abilities, yet it takes time to know whether process improvements actually worked. ¶66 Yesterday’s ...

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