Hands-On Agile Software Development with JIRA

Burndown example one

Now, we'll take a look at how to view burndowns in JIRA. Let's look at the following example:

Burndown example 1

First of all, on the vertical axis, we have STORY POINTS. In this iteration, we have about 36 story points at the beginning of the sprint. At the end, we actually want to burn down to zero story points, so ideally, we're handling all of the work that was committed to in this iteration. On the bottom, we have TIME. This would be a two-week sprint, and we can see that as we go through time, we burn down the story points to zero, and no work will remain. The gray line represents the ideal scenario; so, assuming ...