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by beckler
4028 days ago
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Yes, I absolutely agree entirely. The reason we had individual velocity measured, is because our management wanted to use it as a metric to determine our performance (Which I think is an awful method for measuring performance). I work in a digital agency, and our management tries to be very hands off, but then they do something like look at individual velocity and our amount of git commits to make sure we're working. |
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Taking commit counts as a measure (and line counts for the same reasons) is like evaluating a writer by the number of words they write without looking at the content. A writer could copy a phone book to get good reviews.
Individual velocities are bad for several reasons. (1) they discourage team work (2) they are inexact (story point estimates only work because we look at the sum of them for sprint planning, they work on average, not for individual stories). (3) there are better metrics available.
If your management wants you to do agile develoment, they should be there in the sprint review and look at last sprint's work.