AA73 - Should Velocity Always Be Increasing, Forever?

Is Velocity a number that should go up and up, forever? What does it mean when Velocity goes down? On this episode, Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Agile Coach Om Patel talk about the ups and downs (pun intended) of Velocity.

0:00 Topic Intro
0:43 Should Velocity Perpetually Rise?
3:03 Let's Argue About: Metrics
7:27 Sustainability and Circling the Drain Faster
12:32 Seeking Justification
15:55 Decreasing Team Size to Speed Up
20:52 Reasons to Increase Velocity
25:42 Standardization/Equalization Between Teams
27:51 More on Bad Metrics
33:42 Business Value
39:15 Stability, an Example
45:08 Dips in Velocity - Where is Product?
50:33 Summarizing the Topic
53:19 Tracking Variance
59:10 Wrap-Up

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AA73 - Should Velocity Always Be Increasing, Forever?