What you'll need
- The Sprints and Sprints Points ClickApps must be enabled in your Workspace by an owner or admin.
- Sprint Cards are available on the Business Plan and above.
Sprint Burndown Cards
- Y-axis: Represents the measure of effort that's configured in your default Workspace or Sprint Folder Sprint settings.
- You can measure effort using Sprint Points and Time Estimates.
- X-axis: Represents your current sprint. by default. You can adjust the x-axis to reflect another already-completed sprint.
Sprint Burndown charts
- Forecasted: The amount of estimated work for each sprint.
- Total effort: Measures the total amount of work in a sprint at a point in time. This includes scope changes, whether a new task is added after the sprint begins or an existing task is re-estimated.
- This is the net change in effort divided by the forecast.
- Expressed by a green positive or negative percentage representing net change.
- The chart, above shows a sprint where total effort has changed because Sprint Points for a task were re-estimated after the sprint began.
- Guideline: Represented by a downward-trending gray line. It represents ideal progress toward the completion of work based on the tasks planned when your forecast is locked.
- The guideline is calculated by dividing the forecast by the number of days in the sprint.
- The guideline percentage is calculated by dividing the current guideline by the forecast.
- You must lock your forecast for the guideline to calculate.
- Remaining effort: The total amount of work in the sprint when the sprint was locked. As tasks are completed, the remaining effort decreases or burns down.
- Completed: The work completed cumulatively throughout the sprint divided by the forecast.
- Calculated when tasks and subtasks are set to a Done or Complete status.
- Completed daily: The amount of work completed in each 24 hours.
Add a Burndown Card to a Dashboard
You can add a Burndown card from a Sprint view or from a Dashboard.
Add a Burndown card from a Sprint view in ClickUp 3.0
To learn more about these settings, take a look at our Sprints overview article.
- The quickest way to add a card is from an In-progress or Ended Sprint view to open the Location header and click Create Dashboard.
- You can also click the ellipsis ... next to the Sprint name to open the List Settings.
- Or with the Location header collapsed, you can click the ellipsis ... next to the Sprint name to open the List Settings.
- Click Create Dashboard or select Create Sprint Dashboard from the List Settings dropdown. Your Dashboard is automatically named. You can change this.
- The Create Sprint Dashboard button is now View Dashboard.
- The data from the Sprint chosen is added to the Burndown Chart in real time.
- Click the View Dashboard button to access your Dashboard directly from your Sprint.
Add a Burndown card from a Sprint view in ClickUp 2.0
- From an In-progress or Ended Sprint view, click the ellipsis ... next to the Sprint name to open the List Settings.
- Select Create Sprint Dashboard. Your Dashboard is automatically named. You can change this.
- The Create Sprint Dashboard button is now View Dashboard.
- The data from the Sprint chosen is added to the Burndown Chart in real time.
- Click to view your Dashboard directly from your Sprint.
Add a Burndown card from a Dashboard
To add a Burndown card from a Dashboard:
- From a Dashboard, click + Add Card in the top-right corner.
- From the left menu, select Sprints.
- Click Sprint Burndown.
- Configure the following options:
- Name: By default, your chart is named Sprint Burndown. You can rename it.
- Sprints from: Select a Sprint Folder. Data from this sprint populates the chart.
- Measure of effort (y-axis): Populated by the method you use to measure effort. This method is configured in your default Workspace or Folder Sprint settings.
- By default, the sprints created in a Sprint Folder inherit the settings configured on the Workspace level.
- Non-working days: Populated by any days of the week your team does not work. These days aren't reflected in your Burndown card calculations. They display as gray on the chart.
- Sprint: By default, this is set to include your current sprint. You can also create a Burndown Chart based on another completed sprint. Your choices are:
- Previous Sprint: The last completed sprint.
- Specific Sprint: From the dropdown, choose any completed sprint from the Sprint Folder you've selected.
- The data from the sprint chosen is added to the Burndown Chart in real time.
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