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| On a Scrum project, the team tracks its progress against a release plan by updating a release burndown chart at the end
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| of each sprint. The horizontal axis of the release burndown chart shows the sprints; the vertical axis shows the amount
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| of work remaining at the start of each sprint. Work remaining can be shown in whatever unit the team prefers--story
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| points, ideal days, team days, and so on.&nbsp;
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| </p>
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| <img height="358" alt="" src="resources/releaseburndown.png" width="298" />
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| <p>
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| On this burndown chart, the team started a project that was planned to be eleven two-week sprints. They began with 200
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| story points of work. The first sprint went well and from the chart you can infer that they had around 180 story points
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| of work remaining after the first sprint. During the second sprint, however, the estimated work remaining actually
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| burned up. This could have been because work was added to the project or because the team changed some estimates of the
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| remaining work. From there the project continued well. Progress slowed during sprint 7 but then quickly resumed.
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| </p>
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| <p>
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| This type of release burndown chart works very well in many situations and in many teams. However, on projects with
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| lots of changing requirements you may want to look at an <a class="elementLink"
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| href="./../../Scrum/guidances/examples/alternative_release_burndown_chart_565346BF.html"
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| guid="_zUZ0MPVpEdyJbYuqG3X5Ag">Alternative Release Burndown Chart</a>.
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