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Provide stakeholders with a realistic expectation of when they can expect delivery of a release. The chart clearly shows that there are two key variables that determine the ‘Landing Zone’ for a project; The Scope and the Throughput rate (velocity).
By showing It really helps to engage the business how they can directly influence the delivery dates helps to engage them in the collective accountability to deliver the by showing them that they have influence over such a key influence on dates. It also clearly apportions accountability on dates to both the business side and the team.
From experience the rate at which Scope continues to grow is a real surprise for most teams - increasing awareness of this fundamental aspect of a project is key to influencing the outcomessurprises most teams and stakeholders.
The chart is so simple to comprehend that many clients use it to report up to the highest level stakeholders in the organisation.
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'Mode 2 History' - enables you adjust the query to return issues that have only recently been labelled or moved into a version (see below for more details)
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Chart Settings
Having loaded the data you can refine some of the key parameters of the chart. All of these settings are saved with the chart and therefore only need to be done once for a project or release.
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| Show Count/Effort | This enables you to toggle between Count of the number of items or the total effort - on the Y axis |
| Show/Hide unestimated items | Toggles between showing/hiding the number of unestimated items in the backlog. |
| Show/Hide bugs | Toggles betweeen showing/hiding the number of bugs in the scope backlog |
| Hide Title data | Hides the table that summarises what settings were selected in the creating of the chart |
| Data x days old - refresh | In order to speed up this chart we cache the last saved version of it. This could have been several days earlier. Click this button to refresh the data in the chart. |
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Mode 2 History
The 'history adjustment' filter enables you to decide on how you want to account for the history of items that currently meet, or have ever met, the search criteria.
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