burndowncharts

Scrum Burn Down Charts: Tasks or Stories?

There are several ways to do burn down charts in Scrum. Some people suggest using the story points of unfinished stories left as your burn down charts in Scrum. Pro: Only finished stories lower the chart Contra: Chart doesn't move down in the beginning and then rapidly falls off Others suggest to use the number of tasks left Pro: Ch...

Specific examples of Agile documentation?

In an answer to the question Documents for a project?, Chris Ballance replied that "User Stories" and a "burndown chart" are the two most useful types of project documentation for a developer. My question is, do you know of any good example[s], which I can see (for example on the internet, or in a book), of these kinds of documentation?...

Tips on creating Burn down charts with Open Flash Chart 2

I am going to be implementing a burn down chart for our project management system. It's going to be using Open Flash Chart 2 The system knows when the project starts and when it's estimated to be completed. It also knows the story points and how many hours they each take. Users write each day how many hours were worked on each story po...

Is there easy way in python to extrapolate data points to the future?

I have a simple numpy array, for every date there is a data point. Something like this: >>> import numpy as np >>> from datetime import date >>> from datetime import date >>> x = np.array( [(date(2008,3,5), 4800 ), (date(2008,3,15), 4000 ), (date(2008,3, 20), 3500 ), (date(2008,4,5), 3000 ) ] ) Is there easy way to extrapolate data po...

Jira hour burndown chart: how to monitor personal hour burndown chart?

We are using GreenHopper plugin for Jira. With it we monitor teams hour burndown chart. Each chart provide burndown for the whole team. Can I monitor individual hour burndown per developer (or just for me)? ...

Scrum burn down charts, can they go negative?

I work on a small Agile development team which is part of a large, non-agile thinking corporation. Currently, we practise Scrum and occasionally, we exceed our sprint commitment. My question is, how do you handle burn down charts when you have exceeded your sprint commitment? I can think of two options: Extend the y-axis in the nega...

TFS reports on daily basis

My team is using TFS 2008 and Conchango template for Scrum. We use the Sprint burndown chart, sprint view and sprint task board reports to track the status of tasks on daily basis. The burndown chart and sprint view are also shown on a LCD TV screen. These reports are manualy exported daily as PDF files. Is there any utility which can ...