Use Velocity-Based Planning
Explore the use of velocity-based planning in Agile projects by learning how to estimate story points, calculate team velocity, and apply these metrics for sprint planning and release tracking. Understand how to adjust plans based on team capacity and changes, helping you improve predictability and manage Agile workflows more effectively.
Story points are a means of measuring the size and complexity of work items. Velocity is a measure of the rate of progress, which is based on the rate at which work is being completed, measured in story points. Velocity-based planning is the use of story points and velocity to plan work and track it.
Velocity-based planning and tracking is not part of textbook Scrum, but in my experience, it should be. Story points and velocity should be used in the following ways.
Sizing the product backlog
Story point estimation is used to size the product backlog. The sizes of items in the product ...