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Tiiminopeus, often translated as team velocity, is a metric used in agile software development, particularly within frameworks like Scrum. It quantifies the amount of work a development team can complete during a single iteration or sprint. Typically, tiiminopeus is measured in story points, which are abstract units of effort, complexity, and uncertainty assigned to individual tasks or user stories.

The process of determining tiiminopeus involves a team estimating the story points for all the work they anticipate completing in a sprint. At the end of the sprint, the team sums up the story points of the completed and accepted work. This sum represents their velocity for that particular sprint. Over several sprints, a team can establish an average velocity, which then becomes a useful tool for forecasting future capacity.

Understanding tiiminopeus helps teams in several ways. It aids in more accurate sprint planning, allowing them to commit to a realistic amount of work for upcoming sprints. It also supports release planning, providing an estimate of how many sprints will be needed to deliver a larger product increment or feature set. Furthermore, it can highlight trends in team performance, indicating whether productivity is increasing, decreasing, or remaining stable. Changes in tiiminopeus can prompt discussions within the team about potential impediments or process improvements. It's important to note that tiiminopeus is a team-specific metric and should not be used to compare different teams, as estimation scales and team dynamics vary significantly.