Why is the Sprint Burndown report not showing To Do tasks?

Question

Why is the Sprint Burndown report not showing To Do tasks?

I'm not seeing anything in the Sprint Burndown report for the current sprint.

Nearly all Tasks have State of To Do. and all have estimates.
All the Task also have Iteration set to the current sprint.
The Sprint is also setup to start today. 

The previous sprint currently shows the Done items only and not the To Dos but this could be correct (but this does prove that the reports are picking up some data)

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Answer 1

As far as I can remember you need to put a number in the "time remaining" field for the tasks to show up in the burndown. Putting a number in the "original estimate" field does nothing for the burndown chart.

You can read up on the burndown chart here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd380678

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JESPER FERNSTRÖM

Answer 2

As far as I can remember you need to put a number in the "time remaining" field for the tasks to show up in the burndown. Putting a number in the "original estimate" field does nothing for the burndown chart.

You can read up on the burndown chart here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd380678

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JESPER FERNSTRÖM

We have filled in Estimated Effort and Remaining Work in all our Tasks. but still no sign of the illusive To Dos.

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Answer 3

Hi learnerp,

I am moving your thread into the Team Foundation Server - Reporting & Warehouse Forum for dedicated support. Thanks for your understanding.

Best Regards,

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Jack Zhai [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 4

Which process template is your Team Project based on?

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JESPER FERNSTRÖM

Answer 5

Hi learnerplates,

Thank you for your post.

How about the issue now?

If anything is unclear, please free feel to let me know.

Best Regards,

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Lily Wu [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 6

I've checked this today and it's now working, miraculously.

Is there a delay between the the data the report uses and the actual data warehouse? maybe it takes a full day or so before it shows in the report, I see the x-axis is in 5day intervals!

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Answer 7

By default the warehouse is updated every 2 minutes and the cube is updated every 2 hours. These settings can be changed. Read more at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms244694.aspx

Further more SSRS by default caches report results. Read more at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157146.aspx .

So it can take some hours before your reports actually show the data entered in your work items...

Also, I believa all reports in TFS aggregate data on a day to day basis so a burndown chart wont show anything during the first day, basically because there is not enough data to generate the report. 

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JESPER FERNSTRÖM