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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
Number of story points completed this sprint
The vertical axis represents the amount of work, measured either by story points or number of issues. The horizontal axis represents time in days.
Work scope (the red line) shows the work that was planned for the sprint. If this line increases throughout the sprint, this is a sign of scope creep.
Completed work (the green line) shows work that has been moved to Done, and the Done status is in the rightmost column on the board.
Guideline (the grey line) shows an approximation of how your team should be progressing throughout the sprint to finish on time.
The distance between the Work scope and Completed work lines on the chart is the amount of work remaining. When all work for the sprint is complete, the lines will meet.
In the horizontal axis (x axis) the period of time in days that the sprint lasts.
In the vertical axis (y axis) the amount of work planned for the sprint, in the unit of measurement chose to estimate the work: Story points, original time estimate or issue count.
Guideline, the grey line. This line is a guide for your team to approximate where they should be to finish the work on time, provided the work was done in a linear progress. The ideal amount of work left or ideal burn rate.
Completed work, the green line. Each bar This line indicates the amount of work done in that day(either number of story points completed in the sprint, issues done or time).
Work scope, the blue line. This line is the work planned for the sprint. Here you should check if it increases, which indicates scope creep i.e., growth in the scope of the sprint.
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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) is the distance between the completed work (green line) and the work scope (blue line). When the sprint is finished, both lines should meet.
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