Burn down charts
Posted by andy in : Agile on August 24, 2006I was explaining the ideas behind burndown charts today. Tim Mackinnon et al wrote a great paper for the Agile Development Conference that I wanted to show them. I really like their simple approach. Sadly the conference’s web site is not longer around.
Fortunately Tim has a copy on his web site
http://www.macta.f2s.com/Thoughts/planning.html
A more indepth look at burn down charts can be found on Alistair Cockburn’s site:
http://alistair.cockburn.us/index.php/Earned-value_and_burn_charts
I will have to see if I can recover the other great papers from this conference. It would be a real shame to loose them.
Due to neglect, the site lapsed. In theory, the AgileAlliance bought it back and will reload the old files (which were still spinning around someone’s disk).
Ping Rachel Davies to find out when the site will be back up.
Alistair
It’s all back, Andy! check out:
http://agile2007.org/2004/
and
http://agile2007.org/2003/
We can immediately see the flaw in this naming convention… the URL will change every year! yuk. But at least the content is there (except I can’t find McKinnon’s report in either year … which year is it?)
Alistair
Great, thanks Alistair, it’s http://agile2007.org/2004/schedule/expreports.html#XR3-3