Burndown charts

Another project management tool that's popular with the Scrum framework, burndown charts are a great way of tracking how much work has been completed over a period of time.

They're available in a project when looking at a Milestone—here is an example:

As you can see, it shows the amount of open issues in relation to the progression of time through a milestone. It shows a guideline of what progress should look like through the sprint; however, that should be taken with a grain of salt as many things can affect progress, such as weekends or breaks in a project, as well as changes in scope that force new tasks to be created. ...

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