burndown

See also: burn down

English

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

burndown (plural burndowns)

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 […]
A kind of destructive fault in electrical equipment.
arcing fault burndowns
(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 […]