From the course: How to Fix Bad Agile
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- As an agile team, the best measure of your progress is a working product. A successful scrum team will have a potentially shippable product increment each sprint. Because you're delivering a working product, you shouldn't need weekly reports, but for managers who are used to productivity reports, it can be a hard habit to break. You see this with managers who keep a close eye on the team's velocity. They look at the velocity as a gauge for the team's productivity, but velocity is really just a way to determine the team's capacity. It's how much you can deliver in a sprint. So think of it this way. I once worked for an organization with several agile teams. These teams were islands of agility that could be used to transform the rest of the organization. They used colors for team names. The Red Team had a velocity of 54, and the Green Team had a velocity of 16. One of the managers didn't like this discrepancy, so…
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