Becoming a better team is hard work. To improve, team members would likely need to learn new skills or perhaps learn improved ways of collaborating. Yuk.

And coming up with ways to improve probably means a retrospective. Who has time for that?


Are you…

…if so, the Four-Day Double Your Velocity Challenge is for you.

This approach works:

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With all teams: hybrid, in-person, and working from home

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Equally well across all timezones

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In all tools: JIRA, Azure DevOps, Excel, Google Docs, VisiCalc, and more

Follow these four steps to double your velocity now:

  1. Export your backlog from your current tool

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  2. Import it into Excel

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  3. Double all values in the points column

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  4. Import the doubled backlog items back into your tool

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No time to execute these steps yourself?

Work with a Certified Backlog Doubler (CBD) to complete all four steps in one day.

Certified Backlog Doubler (CBD)

Having doubts?

Yeah, we here at Mountain Goat Software have doubts, too. Increasing your velocity should never be a goal.

Good agile teams focus on delivering the most impactful results for their stakeholders and users each iteration rather than the most features or the highest velocity.

Sometimes a higher velocity can be the result of team improvement. But it is a side effect rather than a focus.

If you’d like to help your team improve, here are some of the ways we can help:

  • Watch videos from Mike Cohn on our YouTube channel
  • Listen to the Agile Mentors Podcast hosted by Brian Milner
  • Subscribe to our short, weekly tips to help you succeed with agile
  • Have us train your team on techniques more useful than merely doubling all your estimates.

Find more resources here

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