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Our founder, Marcus Bittman, recently joined The Jira Life podcast to talk about building the Red Line Burndown on Atlassian Forge. Huge thanks to Alex Ortiz and the team at the Jira Life for the invite!

Imagine staring at the above chart that summarizes your largest release ever. The remaining estimate is on a clear collision course with your red line — your resource model — while the blue line reveals your team hasn’t had enough bandwidth to make meaningful progress. You’re at a crossroads. Should you have acted sooner? Will…

In this episode, we talk about the benefits of using the Red Line burndown for Atlassian’s Jira.

Stop Guessing, Start Measuring One of the most common mistakes in software project planning is using assumed or ideal numbers for team velocity and utilization. We often hear statements like: Reality tells a different story. What the Data Shows Several years ago before the concepts supporting the Red Line Burndown crystalized, we were on a…

The Problem We Aimed to Solve… Traditional Jira burndown charts, while useful, often fall short in providing the insights that project managers and teams need to make informed decisions. We repeatedly encountered several challenges: Our Solution The Redline Burndown Gadget addresses these challenges with several innovative features: The Red Line (Resource Model) We introduced the…