Thursday, March 09, 2006

Graphing Gaffs

Five Signs of Trouble in an Iteration "During the course of an iteration, an agile team is able to track it's own progress through the use of burndown charts. The team and the process facilitator can use the burndown chart to watch for signs of trouble. As a coach, I find the following five burndown shapes are common indicators of trouble."

The sixth one I would put down to doing work, like refactoring, test utilities and the like, and then making the expected work less.

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