Now, we'll discuss burndown reports. You may have seen a burndown before, but now, you'll learn how to use it during a sprint iteration in Scrum. In this section, we're going to discuss the report (as used in JIRA) more specifically, including how we read it and what kinds of data we can use from it.
As you already know, a burndown is used to measure the progress within an iteration, and it helps us to understand whether we are on or off track from our ideal state as we go along. In a burndown, the vertical axis represents the total amount of work that exists inside of that iteration, and the horizontal axis represents the time.
Burndowns tell us stories. The more we look at them, the more we will understand what may or may not have happened during an iteration; we get pretty good at telling the story by looking at the burndowns. If we start to...