Tom Lieber's Microblog

Jun 21, 2020

Using velocity to estimate the delivery of a substantial long term project spanning numerous sprints does not work. I’ve seen it attempted many times and I’ve never seen it succeed. At best, with good intentions, a lot of false expectations are created. At worst it is a pressure tactic to pin a delivery date onto the engineering team. … Teams start bending story point values to respond to the pressure.

Why Agile Velocity is the Most Dangerous Metric for Software Dev Teams by Dan Lines, on the LinearB Blog

This one brought back some repressed memories.