Are you looking for a great tool that will effectively track and forecast your projects? Do you want to check and assess the current status of the project, how much is done, what are the progress existed, and how much time you have to wait in backlog? The cumulative flow diagram might be the best option as it will offer you an agile development in the process. Let us learn more about it through this post.
What is CFD?
The cumulative flow diagram (CFD) is a metric chart type that used in the project management in order to manifest the project’s progress. Also, it is serving the same purpose to burn up or burn down charts, as well as flaunt more data.
The cumulative flow diagram is comprised of series of areas or lines that represent the amount of work in the progression of the stages. Just for an instance, in the software development, the typical stages of the development of feature will be – not started, design, coding/development, testing and QA, and complete.
When to Use the CFD?
The ability to showcase the bottlenecks in the process of the development is the main advantage of the metrics in the burn up charts. In planning a corrective action, this one could effectively be used. The corrective action planning such as reassigning the resources from the development to the testing in order to get a project delivery back on the schedule can effectively be worked out. Therefore, CFD is not just reliable but also and helpful for the teams and projects managers who are establishing a project because it will allow them to acquire a good project correction and feedback.
Why Use Burnup Charts (CFD) Over Burndown Charts?
CFD is a sophisticated version of burn up chart that is opposite of the burndown chart. The benefit of using burn up chart over burndown chart is that it can track the growth and offer agile development while burndown chart is just tracking the work that remains over time.
Concrete Examples on How to Create a CFD
The cumulative flow diagram is requiring a lot of data in order to create one that is why it is best to effectively use a software, which already has an access to the data in order to create them. The agile software has the ability to display a cumulative flow diagram for the projects while the Intelligent Reports for the software has the ability to create the MS Word documents that contain a cumulative flow diagram from the software data. Others for the systems software management can also effectively display the cumulative flow diagram from their own data.
The Intelligent Reports for the used software has the ability to automatically insert the burndown chart to the professional reports that are created from the aspects from the software’s data. As one of the easiest customizable solution for reporting for the software, the Intelligent Reports will give you a complete knowledge about the things that happen to the engineering team.
Just in a matter of minutes, you can effectively customize the time sheet reports, SLA reports, progress reports, and any other reports that are automatically delivered to the inbox of your email. So if you want to yield a better result, choose the right software.
— Slimane Zouggari