Assessing the Scrum Burndown Chart

The Scrum Burndown Chart displays the remaining effort for a given period of time in agile projects. The Burndown chart is very simple, but people tend not give appropriate attention to understand what it says. The article on Understanding the Scrum Burndown Chart provides some guidelines on how to build and to interpret the Scrum Burndown Chart. Management is interested by the improvement of velocity, but they should understand that velocity is not a KPI by which you should measure your team, it is just capacity planning tool.

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