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Sometimes you kick off a couple of teams at the same time, and want to see how the team's are doing over time. I've found this spreadsheet will help in those situations.
The spreadsheet shows a team by team view with a chart showing committed versus actual velocity over time, including an “acceptable range” band:
The idea is that you don't want the team to always hit the commitment (that just leads to “sand-bagging”) but rather want to encourage teams to take risks and not feel too bad when it doesn't work out, but also isn't way off. I've used plus / minus 16% as the acceptable range (based on reading) and found that to work well.
Its also shows velocity trend over time:
In addition the spreadsheet shows: