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Respond to a request to raise velocity 20%

Product Management · PM Tools & Reporting · easy · Original Uplift question · Jira · 5 min

A director asks you to raise the team's story-point velocity by 20% next quarter. Which response is strongest?

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A. Accept the target and ask the team to estimate more generously so the points reflect the effortB. Explain that velocity is a team-specific planning measure that is trivially inflated, and propose cycle time, throughput of shipped work, and delivered outcomes as the measures to improveC. Accept the target and add contractors to increase capacityD. Refuse to report velocity at all, since it has no value

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Respond to a request to raise velocity 20%

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