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How to avoid traps when you use the velocity in your team?

Sharing experience from the trenches on velocity

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Julien
Sep 16, 2022
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Let’s put the pertinence of using velocity aside for this article: Velocity is and will always be a tool for the teams, only for the teams.

People should never use this outside of the team, especially a manager.

In this post, I describe the traps I have met in my career that were counter-productive primarily for the team and harmful to the people inside.

In this article, we cover the following:

  • Velocity is a measure that is relative to the people who use it

  • You should never use velocity to compare people inside one team

  • Actually, there is one case where you can compare people inside one team

  • Conclusion

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