In the begining, there was Excel…
As most of the new scrum practitioners, I started to make my burndown charts in a spreadsheet (Excel, OO Calc). Like all the tools made too generalistic, I don’t like it, and felt that something is terribly wrong in the universe.
Then I start a search for a tool that:

1- Can be used from the CLI
2- The graphic can be written / modified by the most quantity of tools possible.
3- Use a text-only format. Well, this wasn’t a requirement at first, but becames one when I find this tool
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