http://growingventuresolutions.com/taxonomy/term/72/0 en http://growingventuresolutions.com/blog/burn-down-art <h3>About burn down charts</h3> <p>We're using various levels of agile/scrum methodologies on various projects and one commonly used tool related part of that process that I particularly enjoy is the burn down chart. It took me a long time to see the value in these charts, but I'm starting to come around to see that they can be helpful as a way to gauge the progress on a project. The chart shows time on the horizontal axis and tasks remaining on the vertical axis. You start with a straight line from the start point to completion and then update the chart to show where you really are.</p> <h3>Is there a burn down chart library?</h3> <p>One day on our morning scrum call as we analyzed some charts, Todd Nienkerk (who I work with on the <a href="http://growingventuresolutions.com/about/customers/economist-com-providing-tools-support-severe-contest-online">Economist</a> project) pondered the shape of our graphs and wondered whether or not there was a library of known shapes of charts so that we could gain some insight into what our charts mean.</p> <p>It turns out, there is no such library.</p> <h3>burndownart.com</h3> <p>So, as a funtime project I built a quick site called <a href="http://burndownart.com/">burn down art</a> which is based on the idea that when you get a bunch of burn down <em>charts</em> together and use some imagecache actions on them you end up with something that looks like art....</p> <p>The site is a basic taxonomy+cck+imagefield+imagecach+views site. One neat bonus feature that I find somewhat fun is that it uses the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/twitter">Twitter module</a> and a little custom code to re-tweet everything to the <a href="http://twitter.com/burndownart">burn down art twitter account</a>.</p> <h3>Community site - add your chart!</h3> <p>I hope you like it and will <a href="http://burndownart.com/node/add/image">post your burn down charts</a> to the page. No registration is required. The more that are added the more likely we are to have good information about what <a href="http://burndownart.com/taxonomy/term">shapes of charts</a> we tend to commonly see...</p> http://growingventuresolutions.com/blog/burn-down-art#comments funtime project site launch Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:23:08 +0000 Greg 686 at http://growingventuresolutions.com