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From the GreenHopper Chart Board you can display the Burndown Chart for each Custom Statistic Field. Learn more about these charts here.

To view the burndown chart by custom field,

  1. Log into JIRA.
  2. Click the 'Agile' link's down-arrow in the top navigation bar and select 'Chart Board' from the resulting dropdown menu. The 'Chart Board' will be displayed.
  3. Select your project from the project dropdown in the top left of the Chart Board (next to 'CHART BOARD'), if it is not already selected.
  4. Select the version that you want to view the chart for in the 'View Version' dropdown, then select 'BURNDOWN CHART', the custom field, and 'DAILY'/'BY CHILDREN' from the dropdowns next to it. The burndown chart of the custom field's number of units will display (see screenshot below).
    (info) Your custom field's 'number of units' could relate to anything you have defined for that field — for example, 'story points'.
    • 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 GreenHopper-enabled).
    • 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; or today's date, if not defined in JIRA.
    • You can toggle the information in the chart on and off, by checking or unchecking the items in the legend under the chart.
    • You can print the data as a chart, by clicking the 'Views' menu and clicking 'Printable'.
  5. The burndown chart provides you with the following information:
    • Burndown chart ('DAILY' only) — The custom field's number of units (for example, story points) remaining until the version release date.
    • Burndown chart - Ongoing (dotted line) ('DAILY' only) — The number of remaining custom field units burned since midnight on the current day. The gradient of this curve may change throughout this day.
    • Burndown chart - Trend (dashed line) ('DAILY' only) — The projection of remaining custom field units to be burned until the version release date, based on the actual unit burn data from the start of the project.
    • Guideline ('DAILY' only) — The ideal burndown. This is computed with the remaining estimates, not the original estimates of the number of custom field units at the version's start date. Hence, this calculation makes the guideline slope more accurate and precise.
    • Required daily burndown rate ('DAILY' only) — The daily burn rate of custom field units required to attain your goal.
    • Required daily burndown rate - Ongoing (dotted line) ('DAILY' only) — The daily burn rate of custom field units required to attain your goal, since midnight on the current day. The gradient of this curve may change throughout this day.
    • Master remaining values ('BY CHILDREN' only) — The number of custom field units remaining by children.
      (info) Typically, 'children' relates to a series of customised time segments with each 'child' representing a 'sub' version, such as a 'milestone', 'iteration' or 'sprint'.
    • Forecast curves (dashed lines) — Forecasts of the curves based on historic information.

Daily

A 'Custom Statistic' field value will be burned as soon as this issue is associated with a resolution. You will then be able to track the sum of this field value for all unresolved issues in the displayed version.

Screenshot: Burndown Chart by Custom Field Units (e.g. Story Points) - DAILY

By Children

If the selected version is a Master version version, you can see the burndown chart of this version grouped by children. For example a Release burndown by 'Sprints'.

Screenshot: Burndown Chart by Custom Field Units - BY CHILDREN





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