Hello, captwilco2002. On Monday, August 11, 2008, at 12:11:21 PM,
you wrote:

> 1. Why doesn't the poll make sense?

Because ...
... per person tracking is counter-productive;
... per person tracking does not collect useful data;
... burndown is measured in things done, not time spent;
... people don't burn things down, teams do.

> 2. Do you think I should be tracking this?

No. Not remotely.

> 3. About how many hours can be expected for an individual to burndown
> in one day (on average)? (Not what is a reasonable number of hours to
> expect each person to burndown on a daily basis, hence the purpose of
> my poll)

What is the difference between an average number that can be
expected, and a reasonable number to expect?

But never mind. Tracking individual hours of anything will break
Scrum, or any other process.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
I once had a coworker who worked so hard that when I came in the
morning, he was already sitting there trying to fix the things he
broke after I left the day before ... -- Ilja Preuss.