There are several ways to use the epic burndown chart: It illustrates the velocity of completing features and stories against the plan.

A member of a new agile team asked the Scrum Development list how to keep track of the actual time engineers spend on tasks, and how this relates to the agile concept of velocity. Velocity is the ...

This month our Agile Architect tackles how you can answer perhaps the most important question of any development project: Are we going to make our deadline?

Many agile tools measure team velocity, or how much teams can get done in a sprint, and teams will want to define, measure, stabilize, and ideally increase their velocity.

Source: On-Site.com. A velocity chart by one of the dev teams before and after the implementation of reference class forecasting. Each sprint represents two weeks.

There is a dark side to velocity, however, that we must be careful of. Instead of being a tool used by the team, it can become something used to control the team, intentionally or not, and damage its ...

ATLANTA , July 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — To ensure new code is delivered with the same agile principals in which it was developed, delivery teams must keep pace with a continuous and ever expanding ...

So back to the second question, “Should you trust those charts?” Yes, you can trust those reports under the CASH principle, but always inspect whether those reports are truly following this ...