SAFe Feature Dashboard
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Summary of SAFe Feature Dashboard
The SAFe Feature Dashboard offers ServiceNow customers a comprehensive visualization tool to monitor feature progress and scope changes over time. It provides key insights into story completion, scope adjustments, and cycle times within a SAFe Agile Release Train (ART) context, helping teams gauge whether features will be completed on schedule.
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Key Features
- Role-Specific Insights: Tailored for SAFe ART users and SAFe scrum users, the dashboard helps track completed work, story points, and scope changes relevant to their roles.
- Widgets: Includes widgets displaying total stories in a feature, feature scope in story points, stories missing estimates, and blocked work. These provide a quick snapshot of feature status and workload.
- Data Visualizations:
- Feature Burnup Report: A line chart showing scope and completed work trends, including forecasts predicting completion timelines. It highlights if scope growth outpaces work completion, signaling potential delays.
- Stories By State: A bar chart grouping stories by their current state for an at-a-glance progress overview.
- Story Cycle Time: A bubble chart illustrating the time each story spends moving from in-progress to completion, with visual cues on story size and detailed cycle time breakdowns by state.
- Upgrade Guidance: Customers upgrading from earlier versions (prior to 1.0.2) should install the dashboard from the Solution Library to access enhanced layouts and visualizations.
- Customization: The burnup report and other dashboard elements can be customized to suit specific tracking and reporting needs.
Practical Benefits
- Enables clear tracking of feature progress against scope and timeline, supporting proactive management of potential delays.
- Helps identify blocked work and stories missing estimates, allowing teams to address issues early.
- Supports data-driven forecasting to predict feature completion dates based on historical performance.
- Offers detailed cycle time analysis per story, facilitating identification of bottlenecks in the workflow states.
The SAFe Feature Dashboard provides a visualization of the changes in scope and the progress of the stories in the feature over a given period.
End user and roles
| End user and goal | Required role |
|---|---|
| SAFe ART user: View the amount of work that has been completed in a feature. Gauge whether the feature can be completed on time. | SAFe_scrum_user |
Indicators
- SAFe: Sum of story points of all stories in the feature
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Generates the completed line in the Feature Burnup report.
- SAFe: Sum of story points of completed stories in feature
Generates the scope line in the Feature Burnup report.
Widgets
- Stories
Indicates the total number of stories in the feature.
- Scope
Indicates the scope of the feature which is in story points. This widget lets you see at a glance how much work must be completed in a feature.
- Stories Missing Estimates
Indicates the number of stories in the feature that are missing estimates.
- Blocked Work
Indicates the amount of work (in story points) in the feature that is blocked.
Data visualizations
- Feature Burnup
- Story Cycle Time
| Title | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Stories By State | Bar chart
|
At a single glance, understand the overall progress of a feature seeing all of its stories grouped by state. |
| Feature Burnup | Line chart
|
Indicates the scope changes, if any, and trends of those scope changes. You can estimate when the feature is likely to be completed. The Feature 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 feature 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. |
| Title | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Story Cycle Time | Bubble chart
|
Identify the time taken for each story in the feature 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 report. For more information, see Customizing Essential SAFe dashboard reports.