SAFe Board — Team level

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    Summary of SAFe Board — Team level

    The SAFe Board at the Team level allows team members to effectively plan, prioritize, and monitor their work within Agile Release Trains (ARTs). It provides an interactive environment to manage stories, sprints, scrum tasks, and tests, supporting smooth sprint execution and backlog management aligned with SAFe principles.

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    Key Features

    • Backlog Tab: Enables creation, prioritization, and organization of stories across one or more sprints. Stories can be reordered using drag-and-drop to reflect priority. Users can filter stories by feature or keyword and create, start, monitor, and complete sprints with visibility into sprint dates and story points.
    • Sprint Tracking Tab: Offers three views for managing sprint progress:
      • Story board: A visual, interactive task board for tracking and moving stories across states (lanes), enhancing collaboration and state updates.
      • Task board: Similar visual tracking for scrum tasks associated with stories, allowing task state updates through lane movements and filtering.
      • List view: Displays scrum tasks and tests linked to stories, enabling quick additions, state reviews, and assessment of pending tasks and tests before sprint closure.

    Practical Application for ServiceNow Customers

    • Manage your team backlog by creating and prioritizing stories to plan sprints effectively.
    • Use visual task boards to monitor story and task progress and update states seamlessly, improving team collaboration and transparency.
    • Track and manage scrum tasks and tests within sprints to ensure timely completion and quality assurance.
    • Ensure your team is configured correctly with the SAFe Team group type, assigned the safescrumuser role, and added to Agile Release Trains to access and utilize the Team level SAFe Board fully.

    Key Outcomes

    • Improved sprint planning and backlog prioritization with intuitive drag-and-drop and filtering capabilities.
    • Enhanced sprint execution visibility through graphical story and task boards facilitating real-time updates and collaboration.
    • Streamlined management of scrum tasks and tests within the sprint lifecycle, supporting timely sprint completion and quality outcomes.

    As a team member, you can plan and monitor activities within your team by accessing the Team level on the SAFe Board.

    The Team level includes the following tabs:
    • Backlog
    • Sprint Tracking

    Backlog

    The Backlog tab enables you to plan and prioritize stories for a sprint or multiple sprints by assessing stories in the backlog.

    In addition, you can:
    • Create stories.
    • Reorder stories in the backlog using the drag feature. The story at the top of the backlog assumes higher priority with a lesser rank value. The story at the bottom of the backlog assumes lower priority with a higher rank value.
    • Filter stories by a feature.
    • Type a keyword in the search box to view only stories whose details match with the keyword.
    • Create, organize, monitor, start, and complete sprints.
    • View current and future sprints in chronological order.
    • View these key aspects of a sprint: planned start and end dates, number of story points (total, complete, and pending) for the current sprint.
    • Assess stories in the backlog and drag them to sprints.
    • Move unfinished stories from the completed sprint to the backlog or a future sprint.
    Note:
    To see the backlog of your team on SAFe Board, ensure that your team is:
    • Of the group type SAFe Team, with the role safe_scrum_user assigned to the team members
    • Added to Agile Release Trains
    Backlog tab

    Sprint Tracking

    The Sprint Tracking tab provides the following views:
    Story board
    Story board is built on visual task boards, which transform the navigation of lists and forms into an interactive graphical experience. The visual task board interface provides a graphic-rich environment suited for managing and collaborating records. To know more about the actions that can be performed in the board, see Visual Task Boards. In addition, you can:
    • Track all the stories of the current sprint across lanes.
    • Move stories from one lane to another, which in turn updates the state of the stories.
    • Filter stories based on search criteria.
    Task board
    Task board enables you to track all the scrum tasks of stories of the current sprint across lanes.
    • Move scrum tasks from one lane to another, which in turn updates the state of the scrum tasks.
    • Filter scrum tasks based on search criteria.
    List
    List displays scrum tasks and tests associated to stories in each sprint. You can:
    • Add scrum task and tests without leaving the context of the record.
    • View the state, short description, and assignee of the scrum task without drilling down into details.
    • View the short description and run result of a test.
    • Assess scrum tasks and tests that are pending before the closure of current sprint.

    Sprint Tracking List