Velocity , it’s just such a cool word! When I type it, it just has to be italicized . When I say it, I think of a speeding red Ferrari, a fighter jet or Superman zooming through the air to save Louis Lane from certain doom. It’s one of my favorite TV channels. In the world of Dev-Ops, Scrum and Agile it’s the rate at which a team converts items to “DONE” in a single Sprint, usually calculated in Story Points and is really one of the pillars of the DevOps. DevOps is a response to the symbiotic relationship of software development and IT Service Management and the historical disconnect that has usually separated these two very critical and interdependent functions. This divide has often manifested itself as conflict and inefficiency . The purpose being to help an organization rapidly produce software products and services while ensuring communication, collaboration and integration between these diverse professional groups. Development is usually of the mindset where ch