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In this guide, we are viewing issues on a 

My backlog has thousands of issues — can

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Yes, but you need to be realistic about what your team can achieve. Backlogs are all about priorities: do the most important things first. The idea of a backlog is to have a large pool from which to draw issues and plan work in advance only over the short term — don't schedule all your thousands of issues out and plan work for the next several years! You'll be setting yourself up for failure. Instead, plan only a few versions in advance, over several weeks or a few months at the most. Your backlog will still be waiting for you when you finish the short term work.

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From the charts you can ascertain a teams' "velocity" — that is, the speed at which the team is able to complete the tasks estimated in units of difficulty (hours/complexity/score out of 10). Once you know a team's velocity you can then calculate, based on the current team performance, how long the remaining tasks should take to complete. 

Understanding the functionality of the 

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Charts

For all the nitty gritty details about accessing the

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This graph looks fairly cool and might impress someone on a first glance, but you do need to be able to explain it or what's the point?

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This is where it gets pretty cool, you can actually build some real credibility for your estimates if the levels out as it shows if your team is consistently producing the same results.

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