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Why cycle time can tell you more than velocity

Take a look at this chart and tell us how we are doing?

Team velocity of a the Starship team. Number are weeks, the colors
represents different categories of work.

It is quite hard… There are too many variables distorting our data. Do we having a problem with estimating? Or is available man days fluctuating? How do we know? 

This problem gets accentuated as we try to plan releases. If we went on and made a made a release plan based on this velocity, what predictability can we expect?

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