Using Burnup Charts for Project Management
Our most popular chart is our burn up. It's a great way to get a handle on several facets of your project at a glance. I like the way Allister Cockburn describes them in this article.
Burn charts have become a favorite way to give visibility into a project's progress. They are extremely simple and astonishingly powerful. They reveal the strategy being used, show the progress made against predictions, and open the door to discussions about how best to proceed, including the difficult discussions about whether to cut scope or extend the schedule. They have a natural mapping to the earned value charts used in military/government projects. They should part of your standard bag of tricks for project planning and reporting.
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