Viewing the Hour Burndown Chart

Note that this page only applies if you are using the Classic Boards (which are no longer being actively developed; read more).

To view the hour burndown chart for your project version,

1. Log into JIRA.
2. Select Agile > Classic in the top navigation bar. Then select Classic Chart Board from the drop-down below the project name.
3. Select your project from the project dropdown (top left of the chart board above the 'Chart Board' dropdown), if it is not already selected. The 'Chart Board' will refresh with information for your project.
4. Using the Chart Board Navigation Bar, select the version whose chart you wish to view in the Version dropdown, then select Hour Burndown Chart from the dropdown menu next to it. The hour burndown chart for the version will be displayed (see screenshot below).
   • The 'View Version' dropdown only includes versions which contain issues that belong to at least one unreleased Fix Version (and belong to a project that is enabled for GreenHopper).
   • The chart's 'Start Date' and 'End Date' are the Fix Version's dates defined on your Planning Board. If not defined on your Planning Board, the 'End Date' is the 'Release Date' defined in the JIRA version (see Managing Versions); or today's date, if not defined in JIRA.
   • You can toggle items in the chart on and off, by selecting or clearing their check boxes in the legend under the chart.
   • You can also print the chart by clicking the version's Actions menu in the Statistics Column and selecting 'Print Chart' from its dropdown. Please refer to the Chart Board - Statistics Column section for details.
5. The hour burndown chart provides you with the following information:
   • Remaining Values - Completed (solid line) — The number of hours remaining until the version release date. For details on how these values are calculated, please refer to How Hour Burndown Charts Relate to Time Tracking in JIRA.
   • Remaining Values - Ongoing (dotted line) — The number of remaining hours burned since midnight on the current day. The gradient of this curve may change throughout this day.
   • Remaining Values - Trend (dashed line) — The projection of remaining hours to be burned until the version release date, based on the actual hourly burn data from the start of the project.
   • Guideline (solid line) — The ideal burndown. This is computed with the remaining estimates, not the original estimates of the hours remaining at the version's start date. Hence, this calculation makes the guideline slope more accurate and precise.
   • Team effort - Completed (solid line) — The total time worked by the team. For details on how these values calculated, please refer to How Hour Burndown Charts Relate to Time Tracking in JIRA.
   • Team effort - Ongoing (dotted line) — The total time worked by the team since midnight on the current day. The gradient of this curve may change throughout this day.
   • Estimate accuracy (solid line) — The sum of the Team Effort and the Remaining Values (that is, number of hours remaining). If you have estimated your issues accurately, this line will be flat. If you are underestimating your issues, this line will trend upwards. If you are overestimating your issues, this line will trend downwards.
   • Estimate accuracy - Ongoing (dotted line) — The sum of the Team Effort and the Burndown, since midnight on the current day. The gradient of this curve may change throughout this day, although if you have estimated your issues accurately, this line will follow a flat trend.
   • Required daily burndown rate (solid line) — The daily hour burn rate required to attain your goal. The is the Burndown divided by the number of days remaining until the end date.
   • Required daily burndown rate - Ongoing (dotted line) — The daily hour burn rate required to attain your goal, since midnight on the current day. The gradient of this curve may change throughout this day.

Tip: If you set up a version to be the parent version of a number of child versions, you will be able to view the burndowns of the parent and child version merged into one. This can be useful for providing a visual overview of a release with multiple iterations.

Screenshot: Hour Burndown Chart

• Click the Time Tracking Analysis button to display a detailed data table for the chart — for details please see Viewing the Time-Tracking Analysis.
  • Note: this button will only appear for people who have the JIRA 'Administer Projects' permission in the given project.