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THE THING THAT EVERY COMPANY DOES WRONG WHEN THEY START WITH SCRUM
Scrum has many useful tools. One of them is the burndown chart. It works like the canary bird they had down in the mines in the past that warned when the air became unbreathable. The burndown chart shows hour for hour, the progress the team makes. It normally show a steady and fairly even descent towards zero. But if it doesn’t, just like when the air pump broke down, the canary stopped singing. Or in our case, the chart starts pointing up. And this is the signal that tells you that you have a problem. For this to work, we need a starting value. So we start with estimating how…