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When you plan a road trip, you’re really only concerned about figuring out one thing: how long will it take me to get there? But for projects, this isn’t always the case. The same formula applies, though.
Once your team has estimated a set of features, and assigned each feature their “point value”, it’s time to start measuring your team’s velocity!
Now that we understand the concept of estimation, we need to talk about how this “credit system” applies to our velocity.
In order to calculate velocity, we need to know how to figure out the amount of effort involved for each feature that a team works on. Before we can get to that, though, we need to determine something else which is crucial. Who, exactly, should be estimating the effort?
Velocity is the key to any project’s success. Plain and simple. I think that just about every project in some way or another tries to figure out this metric. It’s how this metric is obtained that is so important.
