SAFe PI Dashboard
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Summary of SAFe PI Dashboard
The SAFe PI Dashboard is a powerful tool designed for ServiceNow customers to monitor and manage the progress of features and stories within a Program Increment (PI). It provides real-time insights into work completion, scope changes, and team velocity, enabling Agile Release Train (ART) members and SAFe users to track PI status, resolve bottlenecks, and ensure timely delivery of PI goals.
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Key Features
- Progress Tracking: Displays the percentage of work completed, time elapsed, and the number of stories missing estimates to help users understand PI health at a glance.
- Scope and Work State Visualization: Shows the current state of stories and features, scope changes with trend analysis, and blocked work to identify potential risks.
- Forecasting: Uses historical data to predict scope changes and completion likelihood, allowing proactive management of PI delivery.
- Cycle Time Analysis: Visualizes time taken for stories to move from in-progress to completion, broken down by states such as Work in Progress and Testing.
- Velocity Tracking: Provides velocity by sprint charts to assess ART performance consistency across PIs.
- Customizable Reports: Includes PI Burndown, Burnup, and Cumulative Flow Diagram charts that can be tailored to user preferences for enhanced analysis.
Key Outcomes
- Comprehensive PI Visibility: Users gain a clear, consolidated view of PI progress, enabling better decision-making and risk mitigation.
- Improved PI Delivery Management: By monitoring scope changes and forecasting completion, teams can adjust plans to meet commitments on schedule.
- Enhanced Resource and Workflow Optimization: Identifying blocked work and cycle times allows teams to resolve bottlenecks and optimize processes.
- Effective Stakeholder Communication: Visual and data-driven insights support transparent reporting on ART progress and PI health.
User Roles and Practical Use
The dashboard is primarily intended for SAFe ART users with the safescrumuser role, who need to track PI story progress and manage impediments to ensure timely PI completion. Story estimates are essential for accurate reporting; if estimates are missing, entering a default story point of “1” allows indicators and reports to function by count.
Data Visualizations and Reports
- PI Summary Tab: Includes widgets for scope, percent completed, time elapsed, features planned and released, stories missing estimates, and blocked work.
- PI Burndown and Burnup Reports: Line charts showing scope trends, ideal pace, actual progress, and forecasted completion.
- PI Feature Progress: Horizontal bar chart analyzing feature progress by story state.
- Velocity by Sprint: Bar chart for assessing ART velocity stability and commitment fulfillment.
- PI Cumulative Flow Diagram: Area chart tracking story counts by state from start to end of PI.
- Story Cycle Time: Bubble chart displaying individual story cycle times, with filters for states and zoom capability for detailed analysis.
Upgrade and Customization
For customers upgrading from earlier versions, installing the dashboard from the Solution Library refreshes the layout and provides access to enhanced visualizations. Reports such as Burnup, Burndown, and Cumulative Flow Diagrams are customizable to fit specific reporting needs.
The SAFe PI Dashboard allows you to track the progress of your features in the current program increment (PI).
The SAFe PI dashboard provides the following details:
- Displays important details of the PI such as percentage of work that is complete, time elapsed, and total number of stories that are missing estimates.
- Displays the number of stories of the PI in their current state and their progress.
- Indicates the scope changes, if any, and trends of those scope changes.
- Indicates the pace at which the ART members are completing features that are planned for the PI.
- Forecasts data showing the likelihood of completing the PI as planned.
- Shows time elapsed for the stories of the PI to go from an in-progress state to a completed state.
End user and roles
| End user and goal | Required role |
|---|---|
| SAFe ART user: Track the progress of your stories that are planned for the PI. Resolve any bottlenecks and target to complete the PI on time. | safe_scrum_user |
Indicators
- SAFe: Count of all stories in the current PI
Generates the area series the PI Cumulative Flow Diagram report, which indicates the number of stories of the current PI by state.
- SAFe: Sum of story points of all stories in the current PI
Generate the scope series in the PI Burndown report. This series indicates the amount (in story points) of work planned for the PI.
- SAFe: Sum of story points of completed stories in the current PI
- Generates the actual burndown series in the PI Burndown report, and the completed series in the PI Burnup report. These series indicate the amount of work (in story points) that has been completed for the PI.
- SAFe: Sum of story points of active stories in the current PI
- Generates the scope series in the PI Burndown and PI Burnup reports. The scope series indicates the amount of work (in story points) that is planned for the PI.
- SAFe: Time elapsed in the PI
- Calculates the time to be displayed in the Time Elapsed widget.
Breakdowns
- SAFe: PI
- SAFe: State
Widgets
- Scope
- Indicates the amount of work in story points that is planned for the PI. This widget lets you see at a glance how much work must be completed to achieve the PI goal. It also lets you drill down to detail on the stories that are planned for completion in the PI.
- Percent Completed
- Indicates the percentage of work that has been completed in the PI using story points. This widget lets you see at a glance how much work has been completed in the PI. Together with the adjacent Time Elapsed widget, these widgets let you easily see whether you are completing work at a rate consistent with achieving the PI goal on schedule.
- Time Elapsed
- Indicates the percentage of time that has elapsed between the start date and planned end date of the PI. Together with the adjacent Percent Completed widget, these widgets let you easily see whether you are completing work at a rate consistent with achieving the PI goal on schedule.
- Features
- Indicates the total number of features that are planned for completion in the PI.
- Features Released
- Indicates the total number of features in the PI that have been completed.
- Stories Missing Estimates
- Indicates the total number of stories in the PI that are missing estimates. It is required
that you use estimates for the other indicators, widgets, and reports on this dashboard to be
meaningful.Note:If you do not estimate stories, enter a "1" in the Story Points field. The other indicators, widgets, and reports will then effectively function by count.
- Blocked Work
- Indicates the amount of work (in story points) in the PI that is blocked.
Data visualizations
- PI Cumulative Flow Diagram
- Story Cycle Time
| Title | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PI Burndown | Line chart
|
Indicates the scope changes, if any, and trends of those scope changes. Indicates the
ideal pace of work, how much work is remaining, and if the scope is likely to be completed
before the end of the PI. The PI Burndown report comprises the following series that can be
hidden or displayed based on your preference:
|
| PI burnup | Line chart
|
Analyse the burnup trends, and estimate when the PI work is likely to be completed.
The PI burnup report comprises the following series that can be hidden or displayed based
on your preference:
Note: The point at which the Completed Forecast series intersects with or crosses the
Scope Forecast series is a predictor for when the PI might be completed. If the Completed
Forecast series and the Scope Forecast series do not appear to ever intersect, it is a
warning that scope is being added faster than work is being completed. |
| PI Feature Progress | Horizontal bar chart
|
Analyse the progress of every feature of the PI, by viewing the count of the stories segregated by their state. |
| Velocity by Sprint | Bar chart
|
View the velocity of the ART members across PIs. Understand if the ART members are achieving a stable, predictable velocity over sprints, and meeting the commitments. |
| PI Cumulative Flow Diagram | Area chart
|
Monitor the progress of all the stories of your PI between its actual start and end dates. View the number of stories in each state by their arrival to a state, time in this state, and its departure from this state. The PI Cumulative Flow Diagram report comprises the following areas that can be hidden
or displayed based on your preference:
Note: Stories in Ready and Cancelled states are not included in this report. |
| Title | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Story Cycle Time | Bubble chart
|
Identify the time taken for each story in the PI to move from an in-progress state to completion. Each bubble on the graph represents a story. The height of the bubble from the x-axis shows how long that story took to move from an in-progress state to completion. The size of the story bubbles are relative to each other based on their story points. Hovering your mouse cursor over a bubble displays the following details about that story:
From the Story State section towards the right of the report, you can filter the report to view the cycle time of the stories for the selected states. The chart displays the cycle time for each story as the cumulative sum of all duration of the selected states. If there are too many stories at any area of the chart and the bubbles appear crowded on the report, you can zoom in that particular area of the report for a clearer view. |
You can customize the Burnup, Burndown, and Cumulative Flow Diagram reports. For more information, see Customizing Essential SAFe dashboard reports.