Challenges of Measuring Agile Velocity
- Sprint Length: Scrum team is seen struggling with the sprint duration, this is due to slow progress on the developer’s side or some mistake in the calculation of sprint length, or some unknown issues in the team.
- Urgent Bugs: If some urgent bug pops up that hinders the proper working of the product, then that needs to be resolved on higher priority by the developers during a sprint, this gives them less time to complete the user story given to them, leading to issues in the estimation of velocity.
- Change in the number of team members: In case, new resources join the team or the older ones leave then this will cause the calculated velocity to fluctuate.
- Sudden Change of requirement: In case of a sudden change in scope or requirement of the product release, velocity will be impacted.
- Unavailability of Product Owner: If the product owner is not actively participating in the teamwork and giving his inputs properly then the team will not be able to proceed with the release in an appropriate way .
Velocity Chart Agile Scrum
The ability of agile project management to increase project flexibility and productivity is proven across industries and not just in software development. Velocity and velocity charts in agile play an important role when talking about software project management. There are numerous tools out there used by big organizations that can be used to ensure that their sprint is successful. The article focuses on discussing velocity chart agile scrum.
The following topics will be discussed here:
- What is Velocity in Scrum?
- Example of Scrum Velocity
- What is Velocity Chart in Agile?
- How to Estimate Velocity?
- Benefits of Agile Velocity Charts
- Limitations of Agile Velocity Charts
- Challenges of Measuring Agile Velocity
Let’s start discussing each of these topics in detail.