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

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

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

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

Hortitude
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VersionOne makes the burndown sheets nicely.

CR
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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.

DanielHonig
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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.

Bazman
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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.

Michael Groner
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Chris S
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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

Emil C