The scrum master wants to establish a team's initial velocity. A team has two testers, three developers, one full-time scrum master, and a product owner split between two teams. What is their normalized velocity before calculating for time off?
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Answer : 40 Story Points
This corresponds to the SAFe exam:
In an initial PI Planning, it is likely that some of the teams will be new and will not have a historical velocity to use in order to predict their capacity for the iteration.
For every full-time developer and tester on the team, give the team 8 points (adjust for part-timers) Subtract one point for every team member vacation day and holiday in the iteration
Assuming a six-person team composed of three developers, two testers, and one PO, with no vacations, then the estimated initial velocity equals 5 × 8 points or 40 points per iteration. (Note: The team may need to adjust a bit lower if one of the developers and testers is also the Scrum Master.)
(Note: There is no need to recalibrate normalized estimates or initial velocities. It is just a common starting point.)
In this way, story points are somewhat comparable across teams. Management can better understand the cost for a story point and more accurately determine the cost of an upcoming feature or epic. While teams will tend to increase their velocity over time—and that’s a good thing— in reality, the number tends to remain stable. A team’s velocity is far more affected by changing team size and technical context than by productivity variations.
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