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A burndown chart displays the amount of work in a sprint that still remains and also the work that has been completed. This is a big help for your team because they can handle the progress, predict if they can finish the goals and make them aware of scope changes.
Maintain your sprint's health by identifying problems such as scope creep or planned path deviation.
How to read it
The distance between lines is the amount of work remaining. Examine the Work scope line to identify scope creep. Learn more
This gadget displays:
Completed work
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In the horizontal axis (x axis) the period of time that the sprint lasts.
In the vertical axis (y axis) the unit of measurement chose to estimate the work: Story points, original time estimate or issue count.
A Guideline, the grey line. This line is a guide for your team to approximate where they should be, provided the work was done in a linear progress. The ideal amount of work left or ideal burn rate.
Green barsCompleted work, the green line. Each bar indicates the amount of work done in that day: CoA .
Work scope, the blue line. This line is the real amount of work left to be completed in the sprint, based on the unit to estimate the work (story points, original time estimate or issue count): Work scope.
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