Drawing burn-up charts on overlays

We now have 3 teams working on 3 product backlogs (all in the same bullpen). And we've run out space. We don't have room for 2 additional whiteboards on which to draw their burn-up charts. So we improvised.

We now draw each teams burn-up chart on a transparent overlay which is clipped to the whiteboard at the top. The axes are drawn on the whiteboard underneath, and everything pertaining to a project's iteration burn rate (tracked and target ideal pair days plus tracked and target number of running tested stories) is drawn onto the corresponding overlay.


Iteration burnups on overlays
Originally uploaded by sjb140470.

This mechanism allows us to view each team's progress next to one another and obtain an holistic view of how we're doing. It works really well because when we're updating one we don't accidentally erase or smudge another.

Tags: burnup chart, big visible chart

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