Taking weekends into account in the ideal burndown line

Posted on July 29th, 2009 in Silver Catalyst by siddharta || 2 Comments

Silver Catalyst now takes weekends into account when drawing the ideal burndown line. The old ideal line was slightly misleading because it assumed that you will burn down the exact same amount every day. In reality teams don’t work on the weekends, and so they need to burn down extra on the weekdays.

The new ideal burndown line takes this into account and figures out how much you need to ideally burn down on the weekday taking into account that no work will be done on the weekend.

Here is what it looks like

Ideal burndown with weekends

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2 Responses to “Taking weekends into account in the ideal burndown line”

  1. Paul Jackson Says:
    July 29th, 2009 at 2:08 pm

    Hi Siddharta,

    Thanks for putting this in – now a much more realistic burndown!

    Regards,

    Paul

  2. Rudiger Wolf Says:
    July 30th, 2009 at 11:23 am

    What about public holidays?
    How does one specify what days are no-work days?

    Looks like a great product.

    Regards
    Rudiger

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