Burndown Chart for Oil and Gas Piping Work

My 1st encounter with burndown chart is when I was involved in a project with Shell during the pre-commissioning stage. What is a burndown chart?

Burndown Chart answers your question, "Can all tasks be completed by the due date?" at a glance. Burndown Chart plots "the amount of tasks" vertically and "time" horizontally and shows tasks left to do versus time.

As time pass, the outstanding tasks decreases. The lines in the graph lean from top to bottom and from left to right.

And according to Wikipedia :

A burn down chart is a graphical representation of work left to do versus time. The outstanding work (or backlog) is often on the vertical axis, with time along the horizontal. That is, it is a run chart of outstanding work. It is useful for predicting when all of the work will be completed. It is often used in agile software development methodologies such as Scrum. However, burn down charts can be applied to any project containing measurable progress over time.

In other words you are ‘burning down’ the work. It will also predict based on current work rate whether the project will hit the target completion date.

You’ll discover very soon whether the team is working at a fast enough rate. It’s great to get advance notice of how things are progressing and be able to adapt your project or adjust expectations sooner rather than later.

It can also be used to see whether a project team is over-performing and going to finish early. While this is usually good news this information can prove very useful in your next post-mortem. Do the team need to work on their task estimations? Or was the work completed to a less acceptable standard?

These are some of the samples that I worked on recently.

This is the original idea and how it was started to monitor remaining dia-inch for piping pre-fab work.

 

 

 

This is the latest version that I came out with to correlate the remaining dia-inch with the manpower. It been a great helps in understanding how the remaining work achieved and need to be achieved with the manpower loading.