Burn-up chart

Definition

Burn-up chart in plain English

Think of building a house from a nested checklist: rooms break into walls, walls into tasks, and every child line has to add up to the parent — miss a line and something never gets built, add a random deck and you've snuck in unpaid work. Burn-up chart is how PMP keeps that checklist honest. Hold onto this precise job description: A graphical representation of work completed over time plotted against a total scope line, making scope change visible. On a stem, name whether Burn-up chart is about timing, ownership, measurement, or delivery style — then eliminate the answer that borrows a cousin concept from the wrong phase.

Practice Burn-up chart

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• Variance at Completion (VAC)
• Capacity (adaptive)
• Accepted deliverables
• Activity
• Adaptive life cycle
• ADKAR Change Model
• Design of Experiments (DOE)
• Definition of Done (DoD)
• Analogous estimating
• Angoff method