Iteration Burn Down | Glossary

Definition

The ‘Iteration Burndown’ displays the remaining work and the amount completed within the iteration. It is to be proactively anticipated whether the committed work will be able to get delivered by the iteration end date. It’s also useful during iteration retrospective meetings to help identify events during the iteration, or planning.

The features comprised include:

  • Blue bars for remaining task hours
  • Green bars for completed story points
  • Ideal burndown rate is a black line, based on task estimate
  • Hover over the bars/line to see detailed figures on current/past progress.

Further Reading

  • “Agile & Iterative Development : A Manager’s Guide 1st Edition” (book), by  Craig Larman.

 

Becoming a Technical Leader | Book Series

Overview:

Becoming a Technical Leader is a personalized guide to developing the qualities that make a successful leader. It identifies which leadership skills are most effective in a technical environment and why technical people have characteristic trouble in making the transition to a leadership role. For anyone who is a leader, hopes to be one, or would like to avoid being one.

This is an excellent book for anyone who is a leader, who wants to be a leader, or who thinks only people with ‘leader’ or ‘manager’ in their title are leaders.Becoming a Technical Leader is the “textbook” for Jerry Weinberg’s world-famous Problem Solving Leadership Workshop. It consists of twenty-four well-reasoned, thought-provoking chapters on making the change from technical star to problem-solving leader.

Authors:

Gerald Weinberg

Published In:

September 1, 1986