Succeeding with Agile

Historical Velocity Forms the Basis for Committing

When I present information such as this to my clients, a common complaint is that they would love to do this type of analysis, but they cannot because they don’t have the data. There’s a very simple solution to this: Get the data. Doing so is easier than you think. Let’s see how you can do this in two common problematic situations: when you have a completely new team that has never worked together and when the team size is changing or will change during the project.

The Team Has Never Worked Together

If a team has never worked together, it has no historical velocity data. The best solution in this case is to turn the team members loose on the project and let them run at least one sprint before ...