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One tool that can keep you on track is a burndown chart created in Microsoft Excel. These are line charts that compare the amount of estimated time to complete each task with the time actually ...

Fundamental to the burndown chart is that it accounts for completed work, new work added to the scope, and other scope changes. The burndown chart can provide a quick picture of how teams are ...

A well-known tool for such forecasting is the sprint burn-down chart - a chart of work burnout within a sprint. Figure 1 shows an example of such a chart, where: The total volume of tasks (story ...