Charts, Graphs and Analysis

Question 1

What are some charts you can use to analyze the data?

Answer 1

1) Burn-Down
2) Burn-Up
3) Cumulative Flow
4) Velocity Chart

Question 2

What does a ‘Burn-Down’ chart show?

Answer 2

Work remaining

Question 3

What does a ‘Burn-Up’ chart show?

Answer 3

Work completed

Question 4

What does a ‘Cumulative Flow’ chart show?

Answer 4

Tracks the progress of items from to-do to done

Question 5

What does a ‘Velocity chart’ show?

Answer 5

The average amount of work completed during a sprint

Question 6

What chart tracks the progress of tasks from to-do to done

Answer 6

Cumulative Flow

Question 7

What chart shows work completed?

Answer 7

Burn-Up

Question 8

What chart shows work remaining?

Answer 8

Burn-Down chart

Question 9

What chart shows the average amount of work completed during a sprint?

Answer 9

Velocity Chart

Question 10

What decisions can be made from a Cumulative Flow chart?

Answer 10

• Highlights stages where work tends to get stuck
• Average cycle time for different types of work

Question 11

What decisions can be made from a Velocity chart?

Answer 11

• Understand historical performance
• Team can then set more realistic future sprint goals and velocity

Question 12

What decisions can be made from a Burn-Down chart?

Answer 12

• Allow teams to track progress against their planned sprint completion date and identify potential delays.
• Can detect scope creep (team is falling behind due to increased scope)

Question 13

What decisions can be made from a Burn-Up chart?

Answer 13

• Can determine how much work a team can take on in a sprint
• Can detect scope creep (how much has been added)