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For agile methodologies to succeed, there needs to be maximum transparency and planning. A number of agile artefacts have been developed to ensure that the team and the stakeholders have a clear understanding of what's happening. Burndown chart For each sprint, the development team commits to developing the features described in a number of user stories . Each story is assigned a number of points during the estimation meeting . In order to ensure that all the promised features are developed during the sprint, the scrum master keeps a burndown chart to measure the team's velocity. On day one, the total number of story points is marked on the top left of the chart. The next data point represents the remaining story points after the stories completed on day one have been subtracted. The ideal trajectory is a straight line. If the team slows down (indicated by the "actual tasks remaining" line being above the "ideal tasks remaining" line) then they need to spee...