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3.2 Create and review draft PI plans

Notes:

Estimating velocity and calculating capacity: A brief introduction

Agile teams use story points to relatively estimate user stories in story points. With
relative estimating, the size (effort) for each backlog item is compared to other stories.
For example, an eight-point story is four times the effort as a two-point story. The team’s
velocity for an iteration is equal to the sum of all the stories completed in the prior
iteration. Knowing a team’s velocity assists with planning and helps limit Work in
Process (WIP)—teams don’t take on more stories than their prior velocity would allow.
Velocity is also used to estimate how long it takes to deliver Features or Epics, which
are also forecasted in story points.

Keep in mind, velocity is based on historical data of the team’s completed story
points. For the purpose of this PI Planning simulation you will be referring to
calculating Iterations capacity, since velocity is not established yet.

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