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Burn D own charts for Project Management. Team 4 Fangyi Shi Miroslav Janeski Mohsen Mehrafrouz Suleyman Yildirim. Content. Overview Backlogs C hart Types Benefits Example. Overview . What is a burn down chart? A simple method to monitor the progress of the work in agile.
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Burn Down charts for Project Management Team 4 Fangyi Shi MiroslavJaneski Mohsen Mehrafrouz Suleyman Yildirim
Content Overview Backlogs Chart Types Benefits Example /OOTI
Overview • What is a burn down chart? • A simple method to monitor the progress of the work in agile. • It is used in agile software development methodologies (e.g.: SCRUM) • Displays remaining effort for a given period of time / OOTI
Overview Work remaining is the Y axis and time is the X axis. Final goal: no remaining work left / OOTI
Measuring methods • By hours, days, weeks • Units of time • Estimate the same amount for same time units • By story points • Divide work by user stories • Estimate work in story points and track the number of story points left to do / OOTI
Variable Scope • Over a longer period time, it’s generally expected that new work will be added. • Separate changes in scope and progress is to use a burn down chart with a variable floor. / OOTI
Chart types Product Burn Down Chart Release Burn Down Chart Sprint Burn Down Chart / OOTI
Chart types • Product Burn Down Chart • In Scrum, the product burn down chart is a "big picture" view of a project's progress. It shows how much work was left to do at the beginning of each sprint. The scope of this chart spans releases; however, a release burn down chart is limited to a single release. • http://www.sw-engineering-candies.com/blog-1/howtouseproduct-burndown-chartsandsprint-burndown-chartsnotonlyinscrumprojects / OOTI
Product Burn Down Chart Chart Corresponding Data /OOTI
Release Burn Down Chart • The release burn down chart is a "big picture" view of a release's progress. It shows how much work was left to do at the beginning of each sprint comprising a single release. The scope of this chart is a single release; however, a product burn down chart spans all releases. • http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/scrum/release-burndown/ / OOTI
Release Burn Down Chart / OOTI
Sprint Burn Down Chart A Sprint BurndownChart shows all remaining work of the so called the sprint backlog. This sprint backlog contains all work for the current sprint as committed by the team. Usually it is displayed as remaining work in ideal hours for each work day. The Sprint-Burndown-Chart is updated on a daily basis by the team - often before the stand-up meeting of the next work day http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff731588.aspx / OOTI
Sprint Burn Down Chart / OOTI
Benefits Track the development process Assess the productivity of team Estimation of number of hours to be worked / OOTI
Practical example A release burn down chart begins with 200 story points of work. During the sprint 7, progress slowed but then quickly resumed. The whole project finished after 11 iterations. / OOTI
Real-life example http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vs11trainingcourse_agileprojmanagement_topic2.aspx http://joel.inpointform.net/software-development/burn-down-charts-tutorial-simple-agile-project-tracking/ http://growingventuresolutions.com/blog/example-sprint-burn-down-chart-excel-google-spreadsheet-openoffice-org.html http://epf.eclipse.org/wikis/scrum/Scrum/guidances/templates/burndown_chart_D182CF23.html http://lookforwardconsulting.com/2010/10/30/using-a-sprint-burndown-chart/ / OOTI