This measurement, or tool, is called control limits. Whether it’s velocity, budget, vacation time, etc., setting a minimum and maximum of a certain entity allows the agile stakeholder to know exactly what can be done, spent, or utilized
in a given period. The other responses are incorrect because cycle time is the duration of time it will take for a task to be completed; trend analysis is defined as a forward-looking analysis estimating what may happen in the future;
variance analysis is the difference between estimates.