burndown

See also: burn down

English

Etymology

Deverbal from burn down. In the software-development sense, perhaps suggesting a burning fuse.

Noun

burndown (plural burndowns)

1. The use of a herbicide to destroy existing foliage.
   • 2012, Vincent M. Russo, Peppers: Botany, Production and Uses, page 193:

     Controlling weeds prior to direct seeding or transplanting peppers can involve the use of burndown or stale seedbed weed control systems […]

2. A kind of destructive fault in electrical equipment.

   arcing fault burndowns

3. (software engineering) In agile software development, a chart showing how much work remains to be completed.
   • 2012, Mark C. Layton, Agile Project Management For Dummies, page 85:

     Avoid creating separate status reports for management; these reports duplicate information in the sprint burndowns […]