https://agilesoftdev.com/tags/velocity/ Recent content in velocity on Agile Software Development Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agilesoftdev.com/velocity-is-a-planning-tool-not-a-performance-metric/ Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://agilesoftdev.com/velocity-is-a-planning-tool-not-a-performance-metric/ Velocity was designed to answer one question: given what this team has delivered in recent sprints, how much should we expect it to deliver in the next one? It is a forecasting input, calibrated to a specific team’s specific definition of a story point. It is not a measure of productivity, engineering quality, team health, or business value delivered. Using it as any of those things produces outcomes that are reliably bad.