How to Read a Burndown Chart

How long do you spend talking about your burndown chart during your sprint retrospectives? Burndown charts tell you so much more than if you finished all the work in the sprint or not. From these charts, you can learn:

• How well your team is estimating story points

• How many injections occur during the sprint

• How well your team is breaking down tickets

• Bottlenecks in your team’s software development pipeline

We’ll walk through a few examples of burndown charts in this article and discuss what we can learn.