Another aspect related to productivity brought in by agile development was the counting of story points and the calculation of velocity as the number of story points per sprint. However, many proponents of agile development recommend not to use this measure of velocity as a productivity measure because it can lead to unwanted effects. For example, Jeffreys [15] states, “Velocity is so easy to misuse that one cannot recommend it.” The effects can include that story points are inflated instead of used as a means to identify too large stories and keeping developers from working on stories with a
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