Create Your Successful Agile Project

Burnups Show You the Rate of Finishing

I don’t use Ideal lines for my burnups. I tend to measure features completed as the iteration proceeds. Sometimes teams like to measure story points instead. One team had trouble finishing its work during the iteration. As shown in the following figure, that team had a hockey-stick look for its burnup.

This next figure shows a team making steady progress toward finishing.

However, measuring points is not necessarily measuring progress. Points are activity. Stories are progress. To see progress, measure finished ...