This template is recommended by EPAM’s delivery management office as a starting point to manage projects with fixed constraints - on a scope or budget, or both.

The template contains these sections and metrics:

Key metrics

1. BurnUp, for the whole project, in selected UoMs, for all issue types

2. Remaining Estimate, by weeks

3. Bug growth, by weeks

Scope

1. Backlog Health, UoMs

2. Sprint plan change, UoMs

Progress & Productivity

1. Average Lead & Cycle time

2. Throughput, by week

3. Velocity, by weeks

4. Average time in status, in days, by week

5. Number of Open Work Stoppages

Quality

1. Open bugs over time

2. Total number of not completed defects (all priorities)

3. Re-opened defects, by month

4. Invalid defects, by month

5. Defect Containment, by month

6. Defect Leakage

7. Top-priority defects age alert

Estimation & tracking hygiene

1. Estimated items in story points at sprint start

2. Estimated items in hours at sprint start

3. Estimation Accuracy