How do you determine velocity when the previous sprint was half User Stories and half Defects?

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  •  03-11-2019
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Question

The following scenario often happens with my team at the office. Let's say we decided to plan our Sprint this way:

  • 50% new features
  • 50% bug fixing (they are high priority AND unestimated as the fixes are easy, the hard and time-consuming bit is the investigation)

The Sprint goes well and we finish all the features, say X story points, and quite a few unestimated bugs.

Two questions come to mind:

  1. What is our Sprint velocity? Is it X?
  2. Assuming it is X; how do we plan the next Sprint using "yesterday's weather" (X story points) if we now want to do an 100% new features Sprint?

No correct solution

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