Burndown charts

Owned by Olexiy Artemenko
Last updated: Sept 07, 2023
2 min read

Charts


We built and have been developing the app to solve the limitations of existing reporting solutions, including the built-in reporting in Jira. We like to say that we eat our own dog food because we experienced those limitations by ourselves in our day-to-day software delivery practice.

Jira Built-in Burndown Chart

The Burndown Chart report is part of your Jira’s standard reporting. This report is automatically created for each Scrum Board, which means it’s tightly connected with a particular Scrum Board and can’t be added as a gadget to the Jira Dashboard.

The report provides four graphs combined on the one view:

  • Remaining values - shows the cumulative amount of remaining work and how it changes over time.

  • Guideline - shows how the completed work should ideally change over time.

When the project has been completed, the lines will meet zero and be totally “burnt.”

 

Major benefits of Agile Reports and Gadgets' Burnup charts

  1. Select your whole Scrum board or a particular sprint as a data source.

  2. Know how a team (or team of teams) progresses towards a delivery goal - filter by release, epic, or custom JQL.

  3. Get more information with the additional graphs on the Burndown chart for Sprints:

    1. Completed work showing progress by sprints or other time intervals

    2. Total work showing the changes of work to be done

    3. What-if-scenario forecasting based on past traction and custom data

  4. Get more information with the additional graphs on the Burndown chart for Scrum boards:

    1. Active sprints line showing the work done during the active sprint

    2. What-if-scenario forecasting based on past traction and custom data

  5. Create insightful reports and share them with your colleagues.

  6. Share charts as gadgets using Jira dashboards and Confluence pages.

Minor (but still important) benefits

  • Choose how many sprints or time intervals you want to see on a chart.

  • Choose whether to show active sprint.

  • Choose whether to include sub-tasks.

  • See progress data over bigger time intervals, like months or quarters.

  • Export your data to CSV, PNG, or PDF.