Teams that rebel against the sprint burndown usually are rebelling against the use of the burndown by other parties (perhaps the ScrumMaster or the product owner or even those outside of the direct Scrum team) and will cite a lack of time or unnecessary overhead as an excuse not to continue with the burndown. So while a good ScrumMaster will remove any impediments and reduce the overhead on the team, the great ScrumMaster would reduce that overhead (make it easy for the team to update the burndown or even make it automatic) and also remove any external pressure that may be causing the team to
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