SAFe Board — ART level

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.

The ART level includes the following tabs:

• Board
• Backlog
• Planning

Board

The Board tab enables you to track all the features of your agile release train in a single view. Board is built on visual task boards, which transform the navigation of the Classic Environment into an interactive graphical experience. The visual task board interface provides a graphic-rich environment for managing and collaborating. To learn more about the actions that can be performed in the board, see Visual Task Boards.

You can move a feature from one lane to another, which in turn updates the state of the feature. For example, when you move a feature from the Analysis lane to the Backlog lane, the state of the feature updates to Backlog.

図 : 1. SAFe board ART-level

Backlog

The Backlog tab enables you to manage your ART backlog, and pre-plan the next program increment on the level of features.

A program increment is a time frame in which various agile teams work in collaboration to deliver a substantial amount of work towards the end of the program increment cycle. Program increment in SAFe is equivalent to a sprint in Agile Development, typically spanning 8–12 weeks. The most common form of program increment comprises four development sprints followed by one innovation and planning sprint.

図 : 2. Program increment

Planning

The Planning tab facilitates a detailed planning of the upcoming program increment. It allows ART members to discuss the features in the program increment, break them down into stories, and pre-plan the sprints needed to complete the program increment. The Planning tab surfaces the dependencies between stories and dependencies between features, which helps in the planning process.

図 : 3. Planning tab

• Track features in a board
  Track the progress of features in the ART. View their transition from one state (lane) to another.
• Manage your ART backlog from the SAFe 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.
• Schedule features for your program increments
  Define a program increment (PI) and plan the features scheduled for completion within that PI.
• SAFe PI planning board
  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.

関連概念

• SAFe entities
• SAFe PI objectives
• SAFe Board — Team level

関連資料

• Components installed with Essential SAFe
• Quick start tests for Essential SAFe