Red Line Burndown for Jira

Your plan.
Meet reality.

Compare your plan with actual progress. Forecast completion
and understand what changed, right inside Jira.

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Jira Cloud Supports new and classic Jira dashboards

Red Line Burndown product walkthrough, showing the resource model, project burndowns, and chart interactions.

Model capacity

A realistic plan for the team
and time you actually have.

Forecast completion

See where your current
progress is taking you.

Trace scope changes

Understand the issue changes
behind the bigger picture.

01 / Plan with capacity

A deadline isn’t
a resource plan.

Give your project a Red Line: a capacity model based on your team’s availability, velocity, or utilization. See how the work ahead compares with the plan you set.

Account for changes in staffing and availability
Allow for discovered work and estimation uncertainty
Compare progress with your original assumptions

Explore resource modeling

Red Line Burndown resource model and budget configuration from the product website. — Make the assumptions behind your delivery plan visible.

02 / Track the whole picture

One project.
More perspective.

Follow the overall burndown alongside the teams, priorities, or features that contribute to it. Use Jira filters or JQL to define the work that matters.

Red Line Burndown with multiple data series, labeled milestones, and a marked project end date. — Put progress, milestones, and your target date in the same conversation.

Multiple burndowns

Track subsets of your project without losing sight of the overall scope.

Milestones that matter

Mark key dates directly on your chart to keep stakeholders aligned.

Your way of estimating

Work in story points or time, with weekly velocity or utilization.

Product screenshot of the burndown chart and sortable issue-level change analysis table. — From a movement on the chart to the issue that explains it.

03 / Understand what changed

Every spike
has a story.

New scope? A revised estimate? Completed work? Stop piecing together the explanation. Explore issue-level changes alongside your burndown.

Sort changes to find the biggest contributors
Filter by date or the chart’s visible range
Select a row to highlight its point on the chart

See change analysis

From Jira data to a clearer plan

Your next project review
starts here.

01
Choose your work

Add Red Line Burndown to a new or classic Jira dashboard. Choose the Jira issues you want to track.
02
Set your plan

Choose story points or time tracking. Define your resource model, budget, and important milestones.
03
See the full picture

Compare the plan with actual progress, review projected completion, and investigate scope changes.