Definitions
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- noun The use of a
herbicide todestroy existingfoliage . - noun A kind of
destructive fault inelectrical equipment . - noun In Agile software development, a
chart showing how muchwork remains to be completed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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While the burndown is primarily a useful tool for me, when I look at that chart I am hugely proud at how the team was responsive to keep the various projects on track.
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In software development, such a list is sometimes called a burndown chart.
Forbes.com: News Steve Denning 2011
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Current and former intelligence officials called this procedure a "burndown" or "burnout."
Belgrade Burndown 2007
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For those unfamiliar with a burndown chart, the Y axis is the number of committed actions in all of the projects I am managing, and the X axis is the time until the end of the cycle.
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Across all of the blueprints that we committed to with their included actions, this is a list of who had actions assigned that affect the burndown.
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I did by using the burndown chart approach that we in the Ubuntu platform management team have been experimenting with recently.
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I already have a pretty structured way of managing the team; we have weekly calls, I sent out call notes, create new actions, review outstanding actions etc, and the burndown just factored into our weekly workflow in a fairly non-invasive way.
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I think that the burndown approach not only helps me guide all these projects and keep them on track with a regular flow of achievements, but it also helps raise my visibility on the different actions which helps me easily identify the next pieces of low-hanging fruit and coordinate with the community around completion of those tasks and unblocking any problems.
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The legendary Martin Pitt then wrote a script to take this range of blueprints and actions and generate a burndown chart.
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As we draw the Lucid cycle to a close, the burndown looks like this:
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