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burndown chart

Last post 08:44 pm July 5, 2020 by Thomas Owens
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shahrzad lotfi
11:54 am July 4, 2020

Hello Every one

I'm a junior scrum master of a young team, we are on the 12th day of our 2-week sprint and the burndown chart is a straight line with steps!

could you please guide me on how this chart can be moderated?

team members estimate and add new tasks continuously.



Thanks

Steve Matthew
02:49 pm July 5, 2020

could you please guide me on how this chart can be moderated?

Before you go ahead and do that, consider how that action might affect transparency. Also, who should be responsible for updating it?

team members estimate and add new tasks continuously.

This shouldn't be a problem as long as the Sprint Goal is not endangered and they are able to build a Done Increment. However, if they don't complete this additional work, then it might have an impact on how the burn-down might appear. Out of curiosity, why are they adding new work continuously? Are they actually intending to complete it and make it part of the Increment for that Sprint?

Ian Mitchell
02:54 pm July 5, 2020

Can the team explain the burndown, and correlate it to things that have happened? If so, how are they using that information during the Sprint?

Thomas Owens
08:44 pm July 5, 2020

A few questions to consider:

  • Can the team explain the flat portions, where no work is being burned down?
  • Why is the team estimating at the task level instead of at the Product Backlog Item level?
  • Is the team discovering new work that was not considered during refinement and estimation of the Product Backlog Items?
  • Is sufficient planning, including decomposition of Product Backlog Items into more granular units of work, being done as part of Sprint Planning?
  • Is the team likely to meet their Sprint Goal?

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