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Posting the sprint burndown chart

Posting the sprint burndown chart

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

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Posting the sprint burndown chart

- As a project manager, I often felt I was running in an endless race. I would ask the developers how long until they were finished with the next milestone. They would say they were about 80% complete. The next day they would say 85%. The next day they said 87%. But things never reached 100%. This is the problem when you use a measurement that can always expand. In traditional project management, you'll typically use Gantt charts or timelines. These are the horizontal bars that stretch out over time. The bars end when there's a release date. They'll reach across time chasing the distant milestones. With these charts it's very easy to add a little bit more over time. You just lengthen the bar a little. Agile tries to combat this tendency by breaking the work into chunks. Each of these chunks has to be delivered within a timebox. The challenge is to show this workflow in an easy-to-read chart. The stakeholders…

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