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Creating a release burndown chart

Creating a release burndown chart

From the course: Agile at Work: Reporting with Agile Charts and Boards

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Creating a release burndown chart

- The Release Burndown is a big picture chart. It's designed to give you an overall view of your project. If you use this Burndown be sure to use it for the whole project. Don't erase the board if it starts to show challenges. You need to keep the chart updated and transparent. The Release Burndown is similar to the Sprint Burndown. You still have capacity along the Y-axis and time along the X-axis. The main dif1ference is the duration. In a Sprint Burndown you're working with days. In Release Burndown you're working with two week sprints. A Release Burndown has a dashed line that represents the teams capacity. It shows where the project should be going based on the teams velocity. The velocity is the amount of work the team is expected to deliver based on past performance. That means that if the team has a velocity of 50 the Burndown will be 50 multiplied by the number of sprints in the release. If their are 10…

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