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[scrum] Iteration burndown chart shows 'no work items'


Keith Barton (611) | asked Oct 24 '08, 12:56 a.m.
I have an iteration burndown which is a bit strange, claiming no work items found for the chart.

The product backlog (iteration plan) has a number of stories. One story has several tasks, and these tasks are "planned for" the iteration in question.

The tasks are complete, and the iteration plan progress bar shows completed work.

I suspect that because the story (parent) is assigned to the product backlog iteration plan, and the tasks (children) are assigned to the sprint backlog iteration plan, AND that the parent story is still 'open' while the tasks are 'closed' there is some issue with determining the tasks to include in the backlog.

Is this a know bug or am I doing something stupid?
KB

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James Moody (3.3k24) | answered Oct 24 '08, 2:47 p.m.
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keithbarton wrote:
I have an iteration burndown which is a bit strange, claiming no work
items found for the chart.

The product backlog (iteration plan) has a number of stories. One
story has several tasks, and these tasks are "planned for"
the iteration in question.

The tasks are complete, and the iteration plan progress bar shows
completed work.

I suspect that because the story (parent) is assigned to the product
backlog iteration plan, and the tasks (children) are assigned to the
sprint backlog iteration plan, AND that the parent story is still
'open' while the tasks are 'closed' there is some issue with
determining the tasks to include in the backlog.

Is this a know bug or am I doing something stupid?
KB


I don't think that the problem has to do with the iteration that the
story is planned for, nor with the parent story still being open. (Both
of those should be okay).

The burndown report shows the sum of the remaining work (that is, the
sum of the estimates of *open* work items, minus the sum of the "time
spent" of those same work items). You say your tasks are complete - in
this case I wouldn't expect them to show up on the burndown. Did you
close them before or after you assigned estimates to them?

james
Jazz Reports Team Lead

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