Hi Pierre-Selim

Before the last sprint, we adjusted how many points we assign to stories.  We didn't have enough range to compare the complexity, and all things ended up being 5, 8 or 13 points.  This was identified at a retrospective so we decided to recalibrate our points scale.  Therefore it's not useful to compare the points in the last sprint with the past.  We mentioned this during our last showcase.

https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/presentation/d/1Y2uI_oOhXGpcn8y-EHBAAqzxS2Lp5OFEXIkIkd6J6A0/edit#slide=id.gb4d76b02_00


And yes, over the last few months our velocity has been increasing.  I think there are many reasons for this:
- we have not added or lost any new team members in the last 3 months
- as the new product manager, I have been creating smaller stories and helping the team focus (I'm trying hard not to take all the credit here)
- the team has really taken on completing its commitments during a sprint and we have been very interested where we are at at each scrum (we use a spreadsheet and burn up hours)
- We have also been focused on fewer quarterly goals have pushed back on some issues/requests.



On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Pierre-Selim <pierre-selim@huard.info> wrote:
Just out of curiosity (as a product owner myself), as I can see the team is planning and delivering more and more at each sprint 16, 31, 45 and 55 (current sprint): is there any reason for such increase in velocity ?

Oh btw kudos for all the features delivered, and thank you for the transparency which is not always easy to do :)


2014-07-16 0:17 GMT+02:00 Christian Aistleitner <christian@quelltextlich.at>:
Hi,

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 11:00:44AM +0200, Christian Aistleitner wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 09:16:26AM -0700, Kevin Leduc wrote:
> > Our current sprint started Thursday June 26 and ends Tuesday July 8th.
> > [...]
> > http://sb.wmflabs.org/t/analytics-developers/2014-06-26/

Of the originally planned 58 points, we delivered 45 points.

We did not accomplish:

>  |  67129 |      8 | Refinery     | Admin has versioned and sync'ed files in  |
>  |        |        |              |   HDFS                                    |
>  |  67128 |      5 | Refinery     | Admin has duplicate monitoring in Icinga  |

Both items have been carried over to the new sprint.
* Bug 67129 has been done in the meantime.
* Bug 67128 has been re-discussed and had it's requirements and
  purpose changed considerably, and now better fits the overall
  picture and delivers more value. But it also made the card bigger.

Have fun,
Christian



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