Hello Scrum Users, I was at the Silicone Valley User's Group meeting last week and after the meeting a discussion occurred around burn-down charts. The group...
It's funny that you mentioned this. When I first introduced Scrum to our development team after a reading of the Scrum book, I accidentially created the...
Mary, Can you clarify my understanding of your chart? As I see it, it is showing the number of Features completed against a target of the total Features in the...
Below was the first message in a string of exchanges about Burn-up charts on the Silicon Valley Patterns Group mailing list. You can read the entire thread,...
Russ, Does your chart compare to the Cumulative Flow Diagram I described here? <a href="http://www.featuredrivendevelopment.com/node.php?id=515">Cumulative ...
Below was the first message in a string of exchanges about Burn-up charts on the Silicon Valley Patterns Group mailing list. You can read the entire thread...
Mary- This is interesting. I've never encountered a group before, though, that had a problem with burning down and thinking of that as a negative. I assume the...
... For an analogous chart, see the Functional Test graph in XP Installed. Basically looks like an S-curve going up. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com If names...
... I don't think Ken and Mike chart 'man-hours'; I believe they chart 'staff hours', at least when there are women on the team. The burn-up graph shows the...
Mary, I don't really understand the horizontal "expected feature set". Becuase the expected feature is generally increasing, am I looking at feature creep...
Since both the Silicon Valley Patterns Group list and Scrum Development list have been high traffic, I've consolidated responses to Mike Cohn, David J....
Hi everybody, preamble: if a burn-up chart helps (in any way) a team more than a burn-down chart then just use it! :) ... Can we really say that a project...
Russ, In FDD wev've been plotting these graphs since 1997. However, not in the CFD format. The tradition has been to plot them as Features and not Feature...
Mary: I hear what you are saying about the convention to associate "going up" with "being positive". It is definitely part of the "metaphors with live by or...
I really like the ability to create a trend line from burn down to date, that projects the probable completion date of the Sprint or Release if current...
It's similar but not the same. The chart that you are talking about measures the progress of writing code against the progress of writing functional tests. The...
... I think that "Features" should be normalized against each other so that you are really measuring work. XP style story points would be one such measure. -- ...
... It seems to me that time is also negotiable. It makes sense to limit the amount of work scheduled for an iteration to the the amount indicated by the...
The main theme that I see in what Mike is saying here is that Burn Up charts run counter to the thinking behind time boxing. I think that for a time box I'd...
... Could you describe (or point to a FAQ or article) how you make estimates of staff time to determine y position on the burn down chart. I'm especially...
Mike, This was by far the best and clearest explanation I've seen or heard for the approach taken in Scrum. Thanks. I enjoyed this post a great deal. David...
... Veering off topic a bit... Does Scrum really let you futz with quality? In XP quality is one of the knobs that gets turned up to "11" I believe. On the...
David: Thank you. One thing that I missed in my post, is that the metaphor also forces a tension to arise when we try to balance the "limited resources in a...
... sorry but I'm really in hurry today so I looked for a doc and I find this: http://www.controlchaos.com/manage.htm my perspective fits that description. I...
Thanks for the link Marco, ... I found most of this quite familiar from an XP perspective, but I am getting a clearer picture of the emphasis on a burn down...
I'm really learning a lot from the discussion on burn-up charts, and thank Russ and Phil from the Silicone Valley Patters Group for originally raising the...
... In my experience, the date is almost always the most important thing, in spite of the fact that I have only worked on one project in my entire life where...
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Julio Hartmann
jhartmann@...
Apr 3, 2003 12:30 pm
Hello, I'm a Master Degree Student in Computer Science, and I'm planning to research the agile software development methods. I'm not really sure what to do...
Julio Hartmann: take a look at the NAME project (Network for Agile Methodologies Experience) at http://name.case.unibz.it/ -- Marco Abis - CEO & Chairman ...
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Rutter, Adrian
adrian_rutter@...
Apr 3, 2003 12:51 pm
I am not so sure there is a "scientific" method to compare development processes, at least from an Agile perspective. Agilism looks at interaction, ...
