What tool do you use to do burndown charts?

Question

do you use a tool? or just manually make them?

Answer 1

We use something locally based on http://opentcdb.org/ but that does scrum tracking, and draws pretty graphs.

Answer 2

I did use TargetProcess but I now prefer a more tactile method so I draw it manually on a whiteboard.

Answer 3

We tend to just use a simple shared excel sheet with a graph on one tab and a pivot table on another.

Answer 4

VersionOne makes the burndown sheets nicely.

Answer 5

We use the community edition of RallyDev and it makes nice burndown charts. The problem is that our team has not yet been able to do a solid job of entering in data to keep the burndown information meaningful.

Answer 6

We also use the community edition of RallyDev that has nice charts. I find it to be an excellent tool once you work out which bits of it you really want to use. There is a huge amount of fields and functionality that most people wouldn't use which could be a confusing problem for bigger teams.

Answer 7

We used to use the tools at rallydev.com, but in time we found the tool to simply be to cumbersome for what we wanted.

In time, I moved to just a simple Excel spreadsheet. Every morning before stand up I counted the hours remaining and added the trend line next to an "ideal" burndown line on the chart. I posted it on the wall where we held our morning standups.

Answer 8

We you Team Foundation Server and with conchango's scrum templates using the built in burndown through this nice little scrum dashboard

http://www.codeplex.com/scrumdashboard