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Understanding the Burnup Chart The vertical axis represents the amount of work and can be measured in different ways such as story points, issue count, or estimates. The horizontal axis represents time in days. The distance between the lines on the chart is the amount of work remaining.

A burndown chart is a tool used by Agile teams to gather information about both the work they have completed on a project and the work that is yet to be done within a given time period, or as Scrum teams call it, a Sprint.

How to create a burnup chart? Define the scope of your project. The first step to a project is to define the total scope of the project, meaning the list of tasks that will need to be completed. ... Estimate the duration of your project. ... Divide the workload. ... Create your burnup chart in Excel. ... Monitor changes and evolutions.

A release burndown chart provides an overview of the release progress by plotting the remaining workload (often referred to as the remaining effort in Scrum) at the end of every sprint against the ideal workload (or effort). The sprints are plotted on the x-axis, and the remaining effort on the y-axis.

The main difference between the sprint and release burndown charts is that sprint burndown tracks work toward the sprint goals, while release burndown tracks work toward the completion of a new release.

The horizontal axis of the sprint burndown chart shows the sprints; the vertical axis shows the amount of work remaining at the start of each sprint. Work remaining can be shown in whatever unit the team prefers -- story points, ideal days, team days and so on.

The release burndown chart shows you how much work has been completed and how much is left. But these are only quantities. It doesn't tell you what kind of what work the team completed. In other words, it only tells you how fast you're going, not if you're going in the right direction.