Tracking boards and charts

The tracking tools visible to the whole team: task board, burndown, burnup, velocity chart; reading their shape and what it says about the sprint.

The outline, topic by topic

Each topic is weighted the way the exam weighs it.

Task board: what is it?
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A physical or online panel whose columns (to do, in progress, done) show where each sprint item stands.
It is read at a glance: an “in progress” column that is too full shows the team starts more than it finishes.
The customer adds work during delivery. On which chart can you see directly that scope has grown?
- The burnup, whose scope line rises
- The burndown, whose ideal line gets steeper
- The task board, whose column grows
- The velocity chart, whose last bar rises
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The burnup, whose scope line rises
The burnup plots scope separately from finished work. The ideal line of a burndown does not move; velocity only speaks of what is finished.
On a burndown, the … joins the total work on the first day to zero on the last day, assuming a steady pace.
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On a burndown, the ideal line joins the total work on the first day to zero on the last day, assuming a steady pace.
It is a reference, not a forecast: actual work is rarely steady, but the gap with the line raises the right question.