Do you know the numbers you give clients?

When working on an hourly basis, you can confuse clients when sometimes you try to talk about a few hours here and a few hours here or there.

Simply things and just give them these 3 numbers:

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$ Billed to date	__$xx__(accurate on Tuesday)
Burndown Days Remaining	__8__
Calendar Days Booked	__4days x 2__
Next meeting (for Review and Retro)

Hi Andrew, Please find the Burndown report below. I have looked at a few tasks with Zune and re-estimated them.

• Product owner:Andrew
• Scrum master:Paul
• Team:Mark L,Zune,Tristan,Trevor
• $ Billed to date:$20,000
• Days remaining:(around 50 hours based on chart below)=7+days

• Days booked in are 4 days x 2

  • ML and ZV - Mon 5th
  • ML and ZV - Tue 6th
  • ML and ZV - Mon 12th
  • ML and ZV - Tue 13th

• Only the 14th we will

  • Move any remaining tasks to Sprint 4
  • Have a Review Meeting (show and tell) at 10am – 2 hours
  • Have a Retrospective Meeting at 12 noon – 2 hours

  • Have a Planning Meeting at 2pm

    Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.