The purpose of Scrum is to help you streamline your company’s process for development, delivery and sustainability of complex products.

Velocity is one of the, or THE, key metric used by most agile teams to size, plan, and ensure that they are on track. For scrum-based teams, it is hard to think how they would operate without it. It’s ...

From my perspective, the obsession with “commitment matching velocity” is one of many reasons that lead to the “Peak Scrum” effect and contradicts a lot of what Agile stands for.

A lot of scrum teams can misuse velocity. Developers, product owners, managers, and scrum masters do not understand what this metric is for or fail to measure it in a meaningful way. Velocity measures ...

P2l asks: My manager has recently really been pushing to use velocity as a target and measure of productivity. We are currently working at an average velocity of 50 story points. My manager wants ...

Should one provide a reward to the single best team in a division each quarter? How is that team to be determined? What effects will that reward have?