Comments on The Puf Principle: Online burndown chart generator

Thanks for the feedback Bob. I suspect that once...

2010-01-04T19:23:39.960+01:00

Thanks for the feedback Bob.

I suspect that once I add the label feature, the next request will be to be able to set the font+size. :-)

I've been considering adding labels to the axes, but so far have been able to get away with just describing them in the HTML around the chart.

Your posts on lying in burndown charts are interesting for sure. It's true that it's easy to just use the burndown to communicate effort instead of progress. But I'm not sure communicating finished story points would work well for my company, where teams are normally small and sprints are relatively short.

When communicating progress across multiple sprints we always use burnup charts, which indeed show scope change nicely as you also document. But within the sprint we're still using burndowns and "scope change annotations" in the surrounding text.

I recently did a series of posts on burndown chart...

2010-01-01T01:42:27.115+01:00

I recently did a series of posts on burndown charts that hide the truth. A roundup of all of the posts is also available. In those postings I used Excel to generate the charts, but yours are quite a bit nicer. I may start using them in the future.

One thing that would be nice is to be able to lable the axes and the chart itself. I like to know what is being measured and what chart I'm looking at, but maybe I'm just different that way.

Nice and beautiful! Thanks a lot!

2009-11-30T18:40:17.501+01:00

Nice and beautiful! Thanks a lot!

Exactly what I was looking for (KISS principle), t...

2009-09-15T10:24:15.751+01:00

Exactly what I was looking for (KISS principle), thanks for this.

Hi Marco, You can find the code for the burndown ...

2009-06-07T01:35:45.303+01:00

Hi Marco,

You can find the code for the burndown generator here. It's really simple as it was just meant to fill a need at the time. Let me know if it works on your server.

Frank

Great tool! We use it on our wiki for our remote t...

2009-06-03T12:58:41.512+01:00

Great tool! We use it on our wiki for our remote team members. One question: could you publish the source so that we can host the jsp on our own server?

Good to hear that my burndown chart generator is s...

2009-03-26T03:55:00.000+01:00

Good to hear that my burndown chart generator is still useful. We have moved on to a version that more easily integrates with our wiki, but with a very similar "API".

Just wait til you see the newest scrum tool that we've been working on. It's not yet ready for public usage, but it will be announced right here on this blog when it is.

Nice tool! Thanks for sharing. I'm planning to blo...

2009-03-25T06:40:00.000+01:00

Nice tool! Thanks for sharing. I'm planning to blog about it on my blog: A Scrum Master's Blog

Hi Mathias,Thanks for the positive feedback. It's ...

2008-01-23T20:55:00.000+01:00

Hi Mathias,

Thanks for the positive feedback. It's good to see that more people find this tool useful.

Let me know if there's anything you'd like to see different or enhanced about the charts.

Frank

Great generator, I'll be using this daily to let a...

2008-01-23T09:59:00.000+01:00

Great generator, I'll be using this daily to let a team member working from home know how the burndown chart is looking. Thanks for making it available!

Hi Arnout,I fixed the problem you pointed out.The ...

2007-08-30T05:31:00.000+01:00

Hi Arnout,

I fixed the problem you pointed out.

The burn up chart looks interesting. If someone needs such charts, I'll gladly create a generator for them.

Frank

I like it! However, I noticed that you determine t...

2007-08-28T20:20:00.000+01:00

I like it! However, I noticed that you determine the vertical scale based on the first Y value. If additional stories are added later on, some data points disappear off the top of the chart.

On a related note, I recently came across the notion of "burn up" charts. I like it.