Back

Continuing reading The Art of Agile Development I have found another gem for me. (Well, there were more, what I mean here something I can relate to my past experience).

Project I had been working a year ago in my former company went very well. We were using Scrum (or what we believed is very good approximation of Scrum in our environment) and I was proud that our team is delivering a lot features with rather stable velocity.

But then reading this book I have found following:

On the other hand, if your velocity is rock solid, try reducing slack by committing to a small extra story next iteration.

Of course, it makes a lot of sense. How could we know that we are using our time effectively if we did not try to finish a bit more? If we tried to commit to a bit more work we could either finish it all or our velocity would stay approximately at the same level. Small fluctuations of velocity is not big problem, but having stable velocity is probably suspicious.

Back