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What Is the Say-Do Ratio?

The Say-Do Ratio is the percentage of committed story points your team actually completed in an iteration.

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What it is

The Say-Do Ratio measures commitment reliability: the ratio of completed story points to committed story points in an iteration, shown as a percentage. Everview calculates it as (completed points ÷ points planned at commitment) × 100.

Say-Do Ratio figure on a sprint summary band
The Say-Do Ratio label on a sprint's summary band

How to read it

A ratio near 100% means the team delivered close to what it committed to at the start of the sprint. A ratio well below 100% means the team committed to more than it delivered — worth checking alongside scope creep (points added) and descoping (points removed) for that sprint, since both change the committed baseline mid-sprint. A ratio above 100% means the team delivered more than it committed to.

What to do about it

Track the Say-Do Ratio over several sprints rather than reacting to one. A team with a consistently low ratio is either over-committing at planning time or running into recurring disruptions — compare against Velocity and Capacity and Availability to see whether the commitment itself was realistic. A team with a very high ratio may be under-committing.