Sprint Burndown Chart
The Sprint Burndown Chart is a report that displays the amount of completed work compared to the ideal pace of task completion. The report only contains the data for the active sprint. Use that information to evaluate the efficiency of the team during the current sprint and make adjustments to the development process when necessary.
- If the ideal sprint burndown is above the actual one, the team handles the workload faster than planned.
- If the ideal sprint burndown is below the actual one, the team is behind the schedule and fails to handle the planned pace of task completion.
Roles required: admin, pda_admin, pda_user.
To open the sprint burndown chart, complete the following steps:
- Open the task board of a SCRUM project that has an active sprint.
- Click the icon located in the upper right corner of the board next to the action menu. You will be redirected to the page of the current sprint's burndown chart.
The report header shows the title of the project to which the sprint belongs. Click the icon to refresh the report data. You can return to the project board by clicking Open board. Below the UI-actions, you can see the current sprint title (click it to open the sprint record) and the start and end dates of the sprint.
The chart consists of two axes:
- Story points (SP) – the overall number of story points in the sprint tasks. The report includes only User stories, Defects, and General tasks of the current sprint in all states except for the New, Released, and Canceled. If the number of story points is not specified for a task, it is not included either. The actual sprint burndown line descends on this axis as the tasks are completed.
- Sprint days – the number of days from the start till the end of the sprint. The actual burndown line moves forward on this axis at the end of each work day. If the sprint has expired, the actual burndown line continues up to the current day, and the ideal burndown line stops at the sprint end date. To fix this and extend the ideal burndown line, change the sprint end date to a later one.
The dotted line shows the ideal sprint burndown (steady completion of tasks throughout the sprint). The orange line shows the actual sprint burndown.
The first dot on the actual burndown line marks the sprint start date. Move the pointer over it to see the overall number of story points and tasks in the sprint:
Other dots mark the moving of tasks into the Done state at a specified day. Move the pointer over a dot to see the following:
- Task number
- The number of burned story points
- The number of remaining story points in the sprint
- The date and time of task completion
If the sprint has tasks for which the number of story points is not specified, their completion will not be displayed on the chart and will not affect the data. The chart will display a corresponding badge. Click it to open the list of sprint tasks with the Story points field empty in all states except for Canceled, Released, and New.
To make the report representative of the team's efficiency in the current sprint, ensure that all tasks are assigned story points.
When an active sprint is completed, the chart becomes unavailable until the next sprint is started. The chart only displays information for the sprint that is active at any given time.