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15 Things you can do as Product Owner Improve Team Velocity
Dear Product Owners, I have good news for you: there is a lot you can do to help your scrum team to improve the velocity.
Before getting into the actions, let us clarify what is the Product Owner’s interest when it comes to velocity. As a product owner, you are interested in:
- When will your product be ready for release to the users?
- How long will it take to do for specific functionality?
- How much does it cost the development of certain functionalities?
The velocity is the unit of measure the scrum team uses to measure the value delivered. The team targets to deliver constant business value at its best. It is called predictability. From an Agile perspective, the key to good estimations is predictability.
There are three stages each scrum team will undertake in finding the best constant speed of delivering business value:
- measure team velocity
- find the constant top velocity
- keep the team velocity
The tips from this article refer to finding and keeping the team velocity — becoming and resting predictable.
What can you do as a Product Owner to help the Scrum team to improve velocity?
