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Tag Archive: Burndown

Agile: Creating an SSRS Burndown Chart Part 3

In the previous 2 parts (see Part 1 and Part 2) of this series I showed you how to get your data ready, and how to get your report started and your Datasets and parameters where you need them. In this part, we will get the graph functional, and in the next part, we will…

Agile: Creating an SSRS Burndown Chart Part 2

In the previous post in this series, Agile: Creating an SSRS Burndown Chart Part 1, I explained what data you would need to prepare to create an SSRS Burndown Chart (Sprint_Dates, Stories, Story_History). In this part of the series I will explain how to get a basic burndown report in SSRS. First, fire up Report…

Agile: Creating an SSRS Burndown Chart Part 1

The burndown chart. A must have for any ScrumMaster and Agile team. What it should show you is the rate at which you are “burning” down story points. As you can see from the chart above, 3 lines. Red is your “points scheduled”, Green is the “goal” and blue is “points left”. While it is…

Agile: Scoring

Once you have your stories defined and you are ready to “score” them, there are some things you need to keep in mind. What scale are you going to use for scoring? I use 1,2,3,5,8,11, and 13. Why? Well, that is just what we used when I started doing Agile, and it seems to work…