Overview
Track the total work remaining and project the likelihood of achieving the sprint goal. This helps your team manage its progress and respond accordingly.
A burndown chart shows the amount of work that has been completed in an epic or sprint, and the total work remaining. Burndown charts are used to predict your team's likelihood of completing their work in the time available. They're also great for keeping the team aware of any scope creep that occurs.
Burndown charts are useful because they provide insight into how the team works. For example:
If you notice that the team consistently finishes work early, this might be a sign that they aren't committing to enough work during sprint planning.
If they consistently miss their forecast, this might be a sign that they've committed to too much work.
If the burndown chart shows a sharp drop during the sprint, this might be a sign that work has not been estimated accurately, or broken down properly.
This gadget displays all the pending impediments or blockers of a sprint. For an issue to be identified as an impediment or blocker, it has to meet any of the following criteria:
The issue is flagged as important. These issues are displayed in yellow and with the flag icon (see Jira cloud flag an issue).
The issue has a link “blocks” to other issue, which in turn is linked with a “blocked by” relationship to the blocker issue.
Some users identify blockers by other means like using a workflow state “blocker” and a column “blocked”, with labels or with a priority “blocker”. However, none of these methods are taking into account because they are unusual.
Configuration
Name your gadget meaningfully, so everyone knows at a glance when to use it. Fill out the rest of the fields as applicable, namely:
The datasource, where Current indicates the Jira cloud instance where the app is installed.
The project and the board where the issues are located. By default, all the issues are displayed, no matter the active sprint they belong to, in case there are parallel sprints.
Finally, indicate if you want to use the current settings for all the compatible gadgets in the dashboard. This option eases the pain of configuring one by one the rest of the gadgets with the same default configuration
Integrations
(see Jira Software cloud)
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Dashboards
This gadget appears in the following dashboard: Scrum Software Team template
