Use Sprint Burndown cards to accurately visualize the work being completed in one sprint. See at a glance if your team is on track.

Our new Sprint cards offer improved accuracy and performance! Existing Sprint cards and legacy Burndown cards are still available.

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Sprint Burndown cards

Sprint Burndown cards are time-based. Time-based cards display your tasks differently. Learn more about time-based cards.

Cards are used to build custom Dashboards so you can report on and visualize your team's progress.

Burndown cards compare the work your team committed to finishing over one sprint to the amount they finished. Burndown is calculated using the following values:

• 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

Each Burndown card displays data in a Burndown chart. Sprint Burndown charts visualize the amount of work being completed in one sprint against the amount of work you estimated would be completed.

Burndown card calculations account for all tasks, subtasks, nested subtasks, and Tasks and Subtasks in Multiple Lists in the source Sprint.

Anyone with permissions to view the chart sees the same data, regardless of their permissions for the related Folders and tasks.

The chart's Guideline sets the ideal pace for the completion of work.

The data below is expressed as Sprint Points or a Time Estimate unless specified.

Above the line chart, Total effort, Guideline, Completed, and Remaining effort display the most recent values of the corresponding data below.

Hover over the chart to view more detail. Move your mouse across the chart to see the following data over the duration of the sprint:

• 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.
  • The remaining effort does not change when new tasks are added to the sprint after your forecast is locked. The remaining effort does change when tasks added before your forecast was locked are re-estimated or removed from the sprint.
• 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.  

For current sprints, the chart data updates in real time. You can also manually refresh data by clicking the refresh icon in the upper-right corner of the chart.

You must lock your forecast to indicate the end of sprint planning. This cannot be undone. Values for forecasted, guideline, and remaining effort are calculated using the tasks added to the sprint before locking your forecast.

Drill-down view in Burndown charts

Open drill-down view into a Burndown chart to see more details. Drill-down view helps you understand the tasks and effort behind the calculations.

To open drill-down view, hover over the top of the chart and click the Total effort, Completed, or Remaining effort section. You'll see the tasks from that Sprint alongside the Burndown chart. This allows you to look at task status, Assignee, Priority, and measure of effort for insights into your team's progress. 

Add a Dashboard view to a Sprint

Add a Sprint Dashboard view to efficiently visualize and report on the work in a particular Sprint. The Dashboard view will be automatically created when a new Sprint is created.

The Sprint Reporting template includes several cards optimized for Sprint planning and reporting, including Burndown.

Add a Burndown card

To add a Burndown card:

1. Create a new or open an existing Dashboard.
2. In the upper right corner, click + Add card.
3. From the left sidebar, select Sprints.
4. Click the Sprint Burndown card.
5. Configure your card settings.
6. In the upper-right, click Add card.

Burndown card settings

Choose the data to populate your Burndown card.

Sprint Length, measure of effort and non-working days are configured in your Sprint settings. 

The following table describes the available card settings: