Sprint Burn Down Chart – Broadcasts Project Progress To All Stakeholders

Posted on October 3, 2010
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In Scrum, Sprint Burndown Chart is the greatest indicator of the current project status and the progress done so far. It gives a comprehensive feedback for the Scrum Team as well as an outsider. Team members come to know how much work has been completed and can get an idea of whether or not the work done is on track. During Sprint planning, team along with Product owner, selects  the user stories/tasks that will be completed in that Sprint. These user stories are further broken down in to Tasks and Sub-tasks with relative sizing/estimates in terms of number of hours needed to complete. This is initial estimate and team starts with this estimate to complete the work. Every day during Standup meetings, Scrum Master makes a note of the remaining work left. This is again a figure representing how much hours are needed to finish each task/user stories. The data is plotted against each day and a graph is drawn (like below).  This is nothing but a Sprint Burndown Chart.

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One Response to “Sprint Burn Down Chart – Broadcasts Project Progress To All Stakeholders”

1. fenderbirds on October 18th, 2010 4:49 pm

   nice article, keep the posts coming

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