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Should a burndown chart be based on stories or tasks completed?
TL;DR; As the title reads: do you base your burndown chart on stories completed, or on tasks completed?
Some background on why I'm asking this:
I currently work in a software development team of 4 ...
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Team velocity fluctuates a lot, how to find the root cause?
I have plotted my team burn up chart and its velocity per iteration. To me it looks really bad (velocity fluctuates a lot). What should I be looking for to diagnose the root cause of this behaviour?
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What can the team do to prevent stories from completing until the last day of the sprint?
I've read that ideally the team is completing stories throughout the sprint and that shows gradual progression on the burndown chart. My team can only really complete stories at the very end of the ...
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Sprint Burndown chart and tasks estimation in time
I worked as a developer Team Leader, than we became Agile and I took the role of Scrum Master (SM). In the meantime, I've switched to Project Management, but remained in contact with Agile and Scrum, ...
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What is the value of tracking hours in a Sprint burn-down chart?
The burn down chart will have story points on the Y-Axis and duration (number of days) on the X-Axis. My team is able to complete the stories almost at the end of the Sprint. This means the burn down ...
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How does the TFS 2012 burndown work for tasks created and worked on in the same day?
It appears that the TFS 2012 burndown works a bit differently than I expect.
Suppose my current iteration is at 100 hours remaining out of 200 total original estimate, and my three team members each ...
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Using burndown chart to estimate the completion date of a Scrum project
I sometimes read about using the burndown chart to estimate the date when the Scrum project ends. It's often described like this:
estimate all features of the product and sum them up (...
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What can I constructively say when looking at the Sprint Burndown
During our daily standup we examine our Sprint Burndown to look at how we're getting on against the goal line.
I often struggle for constructive things to say about the graph and tend to resort to:
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How to handle tasks from previous Sprint on current Sprint Burn down chart
Let's say a project has 2 or more Sprints and for each sprint you are using a burn down chart to track the Sprint progress. If at the end of the first Sprint there are tasks that have been started but ...
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Burndown chart show as a red horizontal line even after spent time is updated
I am using scrum board in JIRA, I have customized column set.
To Do
Development In Progress
Ready For Code Review
Code Review In Progress
Ready For Testing
Testing In ...
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What problems can be diagnosed from a Scrum Cumulative Flow Burnup?
Useful charts for a Kanban system shows how to read a Kanban cumulative flow chart. I am wondering what patterns stand out on a Scrum cumulative flow burnup? I've seen two patterns frequently: the ...
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Opaque burndown charts and story validation
In our Scrum there is a common phenomenon whereby the burndown chart does not represent well the team's progress. Most of the way into the sprint, only a third of the stories are closed, and the bulk ...
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Alternatives to Sprint Burndown, is it deprecated?
In my Scrum Master Certification training, the trainer mentioned: "Even though the Sprint Burndown is being deprecated it is still used by many teams". The reason behind (I guess) was that it tends to ...
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How does the team deliver consistent velocity when user stories are de-scoped mid-way through a sprint?
We are using the Rally tool for managing our sprints. Mid-way through one of the sprints, the Product Owner de-scoped two user stories. These two stories are complex user stories carrying 8 story ...
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Understanding Azure devops burndown
I do not understand why the burndown is looking like it is. Remaining work is higher than capacity - but in the details remaining work is lower than remaining capacity.
Can anyone help?
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Last day of a sprint in burndown chart in TFS2013
We are using TFS2013 Update 4 with the latest scrum template. And we have been going back and forth on how to read the burndown chart on task board.
Especially regarding the last day of the sprint. ...
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Should the ideal line in a burndown chart be changed when story scope changes during the Sprint?
At the start of the Sprint right after the Sprint Planning, we can already draw a burndown chart with an ideal line. It's a straight declining line starting at the top left with the total amount of ...
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Why does the burndown chart include weekends and nights?
Currently my team's burndown charts includes weekends and nights, I feel like this harms the velocity by misrepresenting it, however, I cannot explain this very well.
This is what is going on in my ...
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Optimistic vs. Pessimistic Burndown Lines - just a Project smell?
Not been here for a while but thought I would jump back with an interesting question.
Are optimistic and pessimistic chart lines on a burnup/down genuinely useful or just a project smell imported to ...
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How do you create your burn-down charts apart from using paid tools
If you're NOT paying for software like Jira, what/how do you create your own burn-down charts?
I have seen a few tools out there for creating burn-down charts. The one I'm most familiar with is ...
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How to tell BurnDown chart that resource which finished his work can't do job for another resource
I have a sprint with 2 developers. IOS and Android
In this sprint we have estimated 50 hours for IOS developer and 10 hours for Android.
Logically Android developer will finish much earlier. However ...
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How do I create an accurate burndown chart when my backlog keeps on being updated with new items during sprints?
I am currently managing a software product. I am using scrum/agile. The problem that I am having is that I am unable to create an accurate burn chart, because the backlog keeps on being updated with ...
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Burndown chart which is based on due dates instead of work remaining?
In the company I work we use scrum.
Unfortunately, We do not track items work remaining, but instead we use "due dates" mode per item.
My question is,
Is it possible to create a burn down chart ...
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Burn Down Chart : What is the definition of work done in Scrum
I am running a Scrum Project. I am using JIRA as well as TFS as my Agile Work tracking tools.
In JIRA I created an 8-point story. The story was completed on the 8th day in a 10 workday Sprint. Sub-...
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Need help for sprint planning when tasks are not done in previous sprint
In our team we don't have dedicated Scrum Master so one of the developer is playing the role of SM. I know this is wrong but it can't be changed.
In out system, we assign story points to all the ...
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How to measure and count sprint progress in new daily meeting approach?
I've recently found article on scrum alliance about new efficient form of Daily Scrum Meetings: Change Your Daily Scrum Meeting which is based on a 2012 paper by Scott Downey and Jeff Sutherland.
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Tips for achieving ideal burn chart
For a planned sprint, it is hard to see the Actual burn chart close to the Ideal even though the required amount of points have been met. Is there anything specific to keep in mind to achieve an ...
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Sprint burndown chart question
I have a question about the burn-down chart. We have a project consisting of 4 sprints, with each sprint lasting 2 weeks (excluding weekends), a total of 10 days. Before starting Sprint 1, the overall ...
