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Understanding the Surf Line

Posted January 10, 2008 | Leadership |

If you do agile planning, you probably use the "yesterday's weather" metaphor of Extreme Programming: your team collects the backlog of stories or features, sorts them by priority, and estimates them -- let's say, using story points. Then you take the "velocity" -- the sum of story points finished during the last iteration(s).

About The Author
Jens Coldewey
Jens Coldewey is based in Munich, Germany. For more than 10 years, Mr. Coldewey has worked with numerous top 50 large and medium-sized companies to introduce Agile practices and Agile management, specializing in deploying Agile development in large organizations. He is a founding member of the nonprofit AgileAlliance and has served as board member. Mr. Coldewey is Managing Director of it-agile GmbH, the leading German supplier of Agile support… Read More
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