SAFe PI Dashboard
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Summary of SAFe PI Dashboard
The SAFe PI Dashboard in ServiceNow enables you to effectively track and manage the progress of features and stories within the current Program Increment (PI). It provides critical insights such as work completion percentage, elapsed time, story estimates, and scope changes. This dashboard supports ART users in monitoring progress, identifying bottlenecks, and ensuring timely PI completion.
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Key Features
- PI Summary and Cycle Time Tabs: Visualize overall PI progress, story states, and cycle times from in-progress to completion.
- Indicators and Metrics: Track total stories, story points planned and completed, blocked work, and stories missing estimates. Estimations are crucial for accurate reporting; if absent, entering a default value ensures functionality.
- Widgets:
- Scope: Shows planned work in story points and allows drill-down into individual stories.
- Percent Completed: Displays the proportion of completed work to date.
- Time Elapsed: Indicates the percentage of elapsed time against the PI schedule.
- Features and Features Released: Track the total and completed features within the PI.
- Stories Missing Estimates and Blocked Work: Highlight potential risks or data gaps.
- Data Visualizations: Includes customizable charts such as PI Burndown, PI Burnup, Cumulative Flow Diagram, Feature Progress, Velocity by Sprint, and Story Cycle Time. These visualizations help analyze scope trends, pace of work, and forecast completion likelihood.
- Role-Based Access: Designed primarily for SAFe ART users with the safescrumuser role to track and resolve PI progress issues.
Practical Use and Benefits
ServiceNow customers using the SAFe PI Dashboard can expect to:
- Gain real-time visibility into PI progress and forecast outcomes to manage delivery expectations.
- Identify stories missing estimates or blocked work that may hinder PI completion.
- Analyze trends in work completion and scope changes to adjust plans proactively.
- Track feature progress and team velocity to ensure steady PI advancement.
- Utilize detailed cycle time data to optimize workflow stages and reduce bottlenecks.
- Customize reports and visualizations to focus on metrics most relevant to their PI management needs.
Upgrade and Customization
For users upgrading from earlier versions, the dashboard layout and visualizations can be enhanced by installing it from the Solution Library. Customization options are available for Burndown, Burnup, and Cumulative Flow Diagram reports, allowing tailored insights aligned with your ART's delivery processes.
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.