Sprint Velocity Calculator

A single average number hides variability that matters for planning. By entering each sprint's completed points separately, the calculator can also compute the Min, Max, and Standard Deviation across them, and derive an Optimistic and Pessimistic sprint-count estimate alongside the average-based one — giving a range instead of a single potentially misleading point estimate.

It compares the average of the most recently entered sprints against the average of the earliest entered sprints, expressed as a percent change. A positive trend suggests the team's throughput is increasing over the sprints entered; a negative one suggests it is declining. With only two sprints entered, the trend compares those two directly rather than a first-half-vs-second-half split.

It divides the Remaining Backlog Points by the Average Velocity and rounds up to the next whole sprint, because a team cannot complete a fractional sprint — even a small leftover amount still requires an entire additional sprint to finish. The Optimistic and Pessimistic figures apply the same rounding logic using the Max and Min Velocity instead of the average.

No. Average Velocity, Velocity Trend, Min/Max Velocity, and Standard Deviation are all derived purely from the story points completed in the entered sprints — Remaining Backlog Points only feeds into the three sprint-count estimates (average, optimistic, pessimistic) as the amount of work being divided by that velocity.