Simon Baker
Posts: 1022
Nickname: sjb140470
Registered: Jan, 2006
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Simon Baker is an independent consultant, agile coach and scrum master
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I'm burning up
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Posted: Jul 10, 2006 3:57 PM
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Some time back I talked about keeping progress visible using burn-down and burn-up charts. At the time I said:
I can't decide whether I prefer the burn-up or the burn-down chart ... I think the burn-down chart is more emotionally powerful because reaching zero has special significance for me, motivating me to push ahead and complete my work. Almost a year on, I've decided to switch to the burn-up chart. I still feel that, psychologically, the burn-down chart and working your way down to zero is more powerful than working your way up to 100% done. But I got fed up of redrawing the chart to shift the x-axis down every time the number of story points in the iteration changed. It's easy to do this in a spreadsheet, but I don't like creating big visible charts electronically.
In the current project, we're drawing our two charts - burn-up chart and running tested stories chart - on a whiteboard with a grid background.
burnupandrtf
Originally uploaded by sjb140470.
These charts are big, visibile and easy to update. The blue and green magnets identify 100% done in pair days and running tested stories, respectively.
Tags: burn-up chart, extreme programming
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