One of the concepts I deal with at work is the Agile methodology of software development. It’s one of most popular approaches to software development in use at tech companies these days. For those uninitiated, think of it as breaking up your work into what is usually set as 2-week blocks. Your team/dept at work will decide what to focus on doing, planning and communicating accordingly, so that everyone is in-sync and works toward a shared goal. Each task will be given an estimated point-value, and a graph, called the burndown chart like the above will then be plotted out. This graph adds up all the points for every task we’ve committed to in the next 2 weeks. The idea is that as each task gets completed, the point-value associated with that task will be subtracted, giving us the remaining point-value for ‘what’s left to be done’. As the team hammers...