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Productivity

Last post 08:31 am August 3, 2016 by Olivier Ledru
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Carlos Martins
05:02 am August 3, 2016

Hi everyone!

I have been done some assessment from Scrum.Org, and I realized that the word "Productivity" appears in some questions.

What is Productivity for Scrum.Org? Is the same of Velocity?

thanks.

Regards,

Carlos

Ian Mitchell
05:15 am August 3, 2016

First, what do you understand is meant by the term "velocity", and how is it measured?

Now, what problems do you think might arise if velocity is considered to be productivity?

Carlos Martins
06:01 am August 3, 2016

maybe:

-> Velocity is how much points the team developed per sprint. In this case, the team needs to estimate the items in points. Jeff says that is a key metric.
-> productivity could be express in terms of business value delivered.

So, the team could have a good velocity but bad productivity.

Am I completely wrong?

Ian Mitchell
08:23 am August 3, 2016

> So, the team could have a good velocity but bad productivity.
>
> Am I completely wrong?

Nope, that's exactly right. A team could have a good velocity but bad productivity. They are not the same thing.

Olivier Ledru
08:31 am August 3, 2016

So, the team could have a good velocity but bad productivity.


And the opposite is also possible !

The team is supposed to start to work on the Product Backlog Items with the highest ROI first.
When the team improves after several sprints, the velocity could raise, but then, the team will be working on lower ROI item !

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