How many sprints are included in velocity on Version report?

[Peter Graves]

How is average velocity calculated?

[Deleted user]

Hi @Peter Graves,

The minimum number is 3 completed sprints. Unfortunately I cannot find a reference for this number.

Average velocity is calculated as:

The velocity can be estimated as the average, over several recent sprints, of the sum of the estimates for the amount of work completed by a team per sprint — so in the chart above, the velocity = (37 + 47 + 50 +57) / 4 = 48. A team's recent velocity can be useful in helping to predict how much work can be completed by the team in a future sprint.

Here is the reference.

Hope this helps

[Peter Graves]

Thanks @[deleted]  Are running some experiments I believe Jira anchors the straight trend line on Version Start Date of Version through total points completed and on up to the current scope line. Average velocity is not used.

If the Version Start Date is not entered, Jira uses the start of the first story in the version as the start date.