Generating burn down chart using Arpoh !

Burn down chart is the most powerful aspect of SCRUM. It gives us the complete information about the sprint;

• On day 1, When the sprint starts, the total effort required to complete the sprint is shown on the ‘Y’ axis.
• As on the last day of the sprint, the effort required to complete the balance activities will be ideally Zero.
• These two points are connected by a straight line, which is the ideal curve on the sprint burn down chart.
• On the activity “post it’ there are three columns; “EP – Effort planned, ER – Effort required, EA – Actual effort”
• EP- effort planned is updated during the sprint planning meeting
• ER – effort required to complete the balance work is updated on a day to day basis. If you can decide on a cut of time for this with the team, you can be sure of the completeness of the data.  When the ‘ER=0″, the activity is done. In another words, for the completed (done) activities “ER” will be equal to Zero.
• The burn down chart takes the values of ‘EP’ and ‘ER’ and plots the sprint burn down chart.
• It will be useful, if you capture the ‘EA – Actual effort’, when an activity is done. This will help to develop a correlation between the story points and the effort over a period, resulting in better estimation.

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