{"id":14,"date":"2026-03-26T16:13:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agile.powellcrew.us\/?p=14"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:42:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:42:34","slug":"iterations-and-velocity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agile.powellcrew.us\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Iterations and Velocity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, I helped coach a track team.\u00a0 I got USATF certified and everything&#8230; One thing I noticed is the velocity is a product of stride and turnover.\u00a0 Bear with me on this one.\u00a0 In other words, if you run 165 steps a minute, and if you have a a stride of 6.5 feet, you will run 5280 feet (a mile) in 4:55.38462.\u00a0 ((5280\/6.5)\/165)\u00a0 If you intend to run a sub 4 minute mile, you must either lengthen your stride, or increase you turnover.\u00a0 A rate of 180 steps per minute, with a stride of 7 1\/3 feet per stride will get exactly a 4 minute mile&#8230; it&#8217;s simple math!\u00a0 Anything quicker or longer will increase the velocity.\u00a0 The same is with agile projects.\u00a0 Decrease the time of each iteration (from idea to successful deployment), and you will increase velocity.\u00a0 \u00a0Increase the amount accomplished in each iteration, and you will increase velocity.\u00a0 Increase both, and you may have a world class team&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>More on this later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, I helped coach a track team.\u00a0 I got USATF certified and everything&#8230; One thing I noticed is the velocity is a product of stride and turnover.\u00a0 Bear with me on this one.\u00a0 In other words, if you run 165 steps a minute, and if you have a a stride of 6.5 feet, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agile.powellcrew.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agile.powellcrew.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agile.powellcrew.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agile.powellcrew.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agile.powellcrew.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agile.powellcrew.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/agile.powellcrew.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agile.powellcrew.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agile.powellcrew.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agile.powellcrew.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}