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Set dependencies to your SAFe story by adding prerequisite and dependent stories to it. Using the SAFe Planning board, you can distinguish these dependencies between stories during your big room planning and replan the stories as required.

Use the keyboard to move and arrange multiple SAFe features in the Backlog tab of your SAFe Board.

Use the keyboard to move and arrange SAFe features in the Backlog tab of the SAFe Board.

Associate monetary and non-monetary benefit plans, so that you can capture the potential benefits (financial and non-financial) accrued by the epic for the hybrid benefit plans.

Use the business stakeholder role to read and retrieve data from any table of the Essential SAFe and Portfolio SAFe applications to generate reports.

Epic benefit plans capture the potential benefits accrued by the epic when the epic is executed. Create a monetary benefit plan to specify the estimated benefit in a category spanning one or more fiscal periods.

Epic benefit plans capture the potential non-financial benefits accrued by the epic when the epic is executed. Create a non-monetary benefit plan to specify the estimated benefit in a category spanning one or more fiscal periods.

Create a test, add steps to the test, and create and maintain different versions of the test. A test is a collection of conditions or steps used to determine whether a SAFe story is working correctly. A test can also include an expected result that determines whether the test passes or fails.

Create an epic within SAFe. An epic is the largest unit of work that has one common objective such customer request, or business requirement. An epic is further decomposed into features for implementation and delivery by SAFe agile release trains (ARTs).

Create a feature in SAFe and break it down into smaller user stories for implementation and delivery by SAFe teams.

From SAFe, define a portfolio which is a group of ARTs working towards a single solution.

From SAFe, define an Agile Release Train (ART) which is a group of agile teams working towards a single solution.

With SAFe, define a program increment (PI). A program increment is typically 8–12 weeks long, during which an ART delivers incremental value in the form of working, tested software and systems.

Create high-level definitions of your requirements in the form of stories in SAFe.

From SAFe, create an agile team and associate it to an ART.

Configure indicators to reflect your customizations in Essential SAFe dashboards.

Configure story states to reflect your customizations on the Essential SAFe dashboards.

Customize the Burnup, Burndown, and Cumulative Flow Diagram reports of your dashboards according to the custom states of your SAFe stories.

Create SAFe program increment (PI) objectives so that you can summarize the goals of your team or agile release train (ART) for the upcoming PIs.

Domain separation is supported in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) application. Domain separation enables you to separate data, processes, and administrative tasks into logical groupings called domains. You can control several aspects of this separation, including which users can see and access data.

Enable scheduled data collection to begin collecting scores on new data automatically for Essential SAFe dashboards. Data collection jobs automatically collect scores for automated indicators and breakdowns.

Apply lean and agile principles to your Agile Release Trains and teams, and develop and deliver work with fewer defects in the shortest viable lead time.

View the labor cost expenses based on the resource assignments for your epics.

Several types of components are installed with activation of the Agile - Scaled Agile Framework - Essential SAFe plugin (com.snc.sdlc.safe), including tables and user roles.

Several types of components are installed with activation of the Agile - Scaled Agile Framework - Portfolio SAFe plugin (com.snc.sdlc.portfolio_safe), including tables and user roles.

Learn about the various SAFe entities that are used to successfully plan, track, and deliver your software products.

Manage, evaluate, prioritize, and sequence stories in your team backlog.

Manage, evaluate, prioritize, and sequence epics in your portfolio backlog.

Improve your SAFe processes and practices using the Platform Analytics Content Pack for Essential SAFe that contains preconfigured dashboards with data visualizations.

Plan your SAFe program increments (PIs) and track the progress of stories and features in an interactive planning board.

Prioritize and manage features in your agile release train (ART) backlog. The ART backlog lists only the active features that are not assigned to any program increment.

With Portfolio SAFe, you can align your organizational goals and strategies with your portfolios, and apply lean and agile principles to seamlessly manage and deliver your portfolio work.

As a portfolio manager, you can plan and monitor activities within your portfolio by accessing the Portfolio level on the SAFe Board.

Define a program increment (PI) and plan the features scheduled for completion within that PI.

As a product manager, you can plan and monitor activities across teams within your agile release train (ART) by accessing the ART level on the SAFe Board.

Validate that Essential SAFe still works after you make any configuration change such as apply an upgrade or develop an application. Copy and customize these quick start tests to pass when using your instance-specific data.

Use the related links and related lists in your SAFe story form based on the actions that you need to perform on your story.

Understand if your work would be completed by the planned end dates by reviewing progress status of your SAFe features and epics.

View the test scenario and execute all the steps of a test for verifying a SAFe story.

Visualize how the ART members are progressing on features and program increments (PIs) over a given period using the SAFe ART dashboard. Gain insight on the overall velocity of the ART members, historical performance of the ART on the PI objectives. Use this information to plan the work for the upcoming program increments.

The SAFe Epic Dashboard provides a visualization of how the features of an epic are progressing over a given period of time.

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.

The SAFe PI Dashboard allows you to track the progress of your features in the current program increment (PI).

Use SAFe program increment (PI) objectives to highlight the overall goals for a team or for an agile release train (ART) in a PI.

Use a centralized board to plan your program increments (PIs) for an agile release train (ART). You can create and assign stories to teams, add and view story dependencies, track stories by sprints, and re-plan these stories if required.

The SAFe Prior PI Dashboard provides data visualization on scope, actual burndown, and forecast trends of previous program increments (PI). Analyze the data and plan the work for upcoming PIs.

The SAFe Prior Sprint Dashboard provides data visualization on scope, actual burnup and burndown, and forecast trends of previous sprints. Analyze the data and plan the work for upcoming sprints.

Set up your own triage board by defining filter criteria, and view records that are important to your team, such as problems, incident tasks, defects, or change requests. For example, you can create one triage board for defects and another for incidents.

Track the progress of your SAFe stories in the current sprint and forecast sprint completion using the SAFe Sprint Dashboard.

Create, execute, track, and complete the scrum tasks and tests of a SAFe story from the list view.

Visually analyze how a team is progressing on stories over a given period. Gain insight on the overall velocity of the team and helps you plan the team's capacity for the upcoming sprints and program increments (PIs). In addition, this dashboard provides details of all the team members.

Apply lean and agile principles to your large enterprise enabling you to develop and deliver software products with fewer defects in the shortest viable lead time.

SAFe — Unified Backlog allows you to maintain a centralized backlog containing records of different task types, such as defects, problems, incident tasks, and stories. It facilitates in prioritizing and sequencing different task type records in one location, saving you steps. It also removes the overhead of converting records to stories.

Split a SAFe feature into two separate features so that you can track complete and incomplete stories. Move the feature with the incomplete stories to your backlog or to a future program increment (PI). This maintains accurate metrics of the previous sprints and PIs.

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

Using the Board tab, track all epics of your portfolio and view their transition from one state (lane) to another.

Track the progress of features in the ART. View their transition from one state (lane) to another.

Track the progress of your SAFe stories and scrum tasks. View their transition from one state (lane) to another in a visual task board.

Update a monetary benefit plan breakdown record that specifies the estimated and actual benefits, at a granular level, for specific fiscal periods.

Update a non-monetary benefit plan breakdown record that specifies the estimated and actual benefits, at a granular level, for specific fiscal periods.

Customize UI scripts by overriding methods in empty implementation (Impl) classes.

Upgrade to the latest layout of Essential SAFe dashboards using Solution Library.

View the history of test runs. Troubleshoot and rectify the test failures in SAFe.

The Work Progress Status for SAFe application provides you with indicators such as estimated completion date and progress status (green, yellow, red) for your SAFe epics and features.