What is the purpose of a velocity, if you do not know the distance to the end?

• Are you going fact enough?
• Are you going too fast?
• Are you going in the right direction?
• Is the direction you are going the least energy path?

Planning and Scheduling inside of projects, especially projects where planning and scheduling is not the normal paradigm - Agile projects. Of course this not not not really the case;, b'coz Scrum has planning and scheduling as part of the process. Plans are plans, and the schedule is the list of deliverables in the current iteration.

But one reminder for all those who have convinced themselves that scheduling and planning are not really needed and that emergent development and measures of velocity are the replacements.

The definition of velocity is the measurement of the rate and direction of motion. Velocity is a vector.