How Daily Program Burn is calculated in Jira Align Burn Details (Program Increment Progress)
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Summary
The Daily Program Burn information seen in various sections of the Jira Program Increment is calculated by the sum of average velocities across all active teams in the selected Program divided by their average sprint days.
Environment
Jira Align
Solution
The Daily Program Burn calculation is calculated by the sum of average velocities across all active teams in the selected Program divided by their average sprint days.
Explanation:
"average velocities" = the 5 most recent sprints for each team is averaged.
"the sum of average velocities" = the team's average velocities are added
"across all active teams" = only active teams are included in the calculation
"in the selected Program" = only active teams in the selected program
"sprint days" = take End Date of the first anchor and subtract the Start Date of the same anchor from it: 4/19/2021 - 4/6/2021 = 13 days.
"average sprint days" = average of the sprint days for all sprints included in the calculation.
ℹ️ The velocity of the team is averaged over 5 sprints, but it does not have to be sprints within the same "Program Increment". A team's velocity is not expected to radically change from PI to PI, and even if it does, then the averaging and rolling nature of what is the 5 most recent sprints should factor that in.
ℹ️ There has been some discussion about the "average sprint days" calculation and a bug ticket was raised to investigate, however no changes were forthcoming. See JIRAALIGN-3488 - Calculate average sprint days for the Daily Program burn calculation is inaccurate for the details:
Related Content:
Jira Align Help pages:
10X: Program Increment Burnup by Story – Jira Align
10X: Program Increment Burndown by Story – Jira Align
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