Sprint Burndown

Project managers can use the sprint burndown graph to predict if the scrum team will complete all planned backlog items in a sprint in Agile projects.

The sprint burndown graph evenly distributes the hours assigned to tasks in the project plan across the sprint duration to calculate the ideal remaining hours. The scrum team consumes a certain number of hours to complete a certain number of backlog items. The graph shows how efficiently a project team consumes the available hours in a sprint.

You can measure how hours are ideally consumed during the sprint and compare it to how the project team is actually consuming hours. If the actual hours remaining deviates from the ideal hours remaining, it means that you must assess how many backlog items can realistically be achieved in a sprint. Consider why progress was less or more than anticipated during the sprint retrospective.