What the age of unfinished work can tell us

On Tuesday, we looked at a simple idea: a new Sprint does not erase the history of work already in progress.

So what can that history tell us?

Velocity shows how much estimated work a team completed in previous Sprints. Throughput counts the items completed over a period. Both tell us about finished work, but neither tells us how long a particular unfinished item has been in progress or has been waiting.

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