Scrum Chart - Project History in Standard Time

The SCRUM methodology, as developed by Advanced Development Methods, Inc specifies, among other things, a burn down chart.  This chart is the history of a project, showing the remaining hours.  Each segment on the X axis shows the time remaining for the project.  Hopefully, as work progresses, the remaining hours will eventually hit zero.  As they approach zero, employees can view the scrum chart to see progress and predict the eventual project completion.  At least that's the theory!

Standard Time provides a project history window that shows a scrum burn-down chart.  There, you are able to choose a project, and optionally a subsystem (project breakdown) to view available hours.  The project history scrum chart shows the work remaining for the selected date range.  It allows you to adjust the time scale for day, week, month, quarter.

The primary value in the scrum chart is psychological.  It is important for project members to see progress.  The scrum chart does that.  As you can see in the example below, time project "burns down" to zero, and will eventually end.  Engineers can predict an end, and that can be very liberating.  In fact, it is essential to the scrum process.

Sometimes project scope changes.  More tasks are added, and sometimes others are removed.  The Standard Time scrum chart shows these scope changes.  After adding, deleting, or modifying project tasks, the project history chart will show the change in remaining time.  Since each task "knows" the remaining time, we are able to plot it here.  So, if another 200 hours are added to your project, you will see a sudden upward jump in the scrum chart.  As time is worked, that remaining time will slowly evaporate.

To enable the scrum burn down chart in Standard Time, choose Tools, Projects.  Click a project and click the "Task History" checkbox.  This will instruct Standard Time to begin saving task history data.  Choose View, Project Task History to show the scrum chart.

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