SAFe Prior Sprint Dashboard

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  • Updated March 12, 2026
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    Summary of SAFe Prior Sprint Dashboard

    The SAFe Prior Sprint Dashboard in ServiceNow provides comprehensive data visualizations to help SAFe scrum masters analyze previous sprint performance. It displays key metrics such as scope, actual burnup and burndown, and forecast trends, enabling informed planning for upcoming sprints. The dashboard excludes canceled stories from its calculations to maintain accurate reporting.

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    Key Features

    • Scope and Work Metrics: Tracks committed story points (scope), total completed stories, completed story points, and stories missing estimates from the prior sprint.
    • Sprint Burndown Report: A line chart showing planned scope, ideal burndown rate, and actual remaining work. This helps teams identify whether they are ahead or behind schedule by comparing remaining work against the ideal burndown trajectory.
    • Sprint Burnup Report: A line chart presenting the previous sprint’s burnup trend, showing scope changes and completed work to analyze the team’s progress and forecast future sprint performance.
    • Customizable Reports: Both burnup and burndown reports can be customized to suit specific team needs.
    • Upgrade Path: Customers upgrading from earlier versions (1.0.2 or earlier) can use the Solution Library to install the updated dashboard layout and access the Sprint Burnup report.

    Key Outcomes

    • Improved Sprint Planning: By reviewing past sprint trends in scope and work completion, scrum masters can more accurately plan workload and adjust forecasts for upcoming sprints.
    • Performance Insight: Visual indicators help identify if a team is ahead or behind schedule during a sprint, enabling timely interventions.
    • Data-Driven Decisions: The dashboard’s indicators and reports provide actionable insights that support continuous improvement in Agile release trains using the SAFe framework.

    End Users and Roles

    The primary users are SAFe scrum masters who hold the SAFescrumuser role. They leverage the dashboard to analyze sprint data and trends to guide effective sprint planning and execution.

    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.

    Figure 1. SAFe prior sprint dashboard widgets
    SAFe prior sprint dashboard widgets.
    Figure 2. SAFe prior sprint dashboard burndown report
    Agile 2.0 prior sprint dashboard burndown report.
    Figure 3. SAFe prior sprint dashboard burnup report
    Agile 2.0 prior sprint dashboard burnup report.
    Note:
    Canceled stories are not included in any of this data.

    End user and roles

    End user and goal Required role Benefits
    SAFe scrum master: Analyze data on scope, actual burnup and burndown, and forecast trends of previous sprints. SAFe_scrum_user
    • Analyze sprint burndown and burnup trends
    • Use the data to plan for upcoming sprints

    Indicators

    SAFe: Sum of story points of all stories in the current sprint
    Generates the scope series in the SAFe Sprint Burndown report.
    SAFe: Sum of story points of active stories in the current sprint
    Generates the actual burndown series in the SAFe Sprint Burndown report.

    Breakdowns

    • SAFe: Sprint
    • SAFe: Prior Sprint

    Widgets

    Committed points

    Indicates the committed scope (in number of story points) of the sprint.

    Stories
    Indicates the total number of stories that were completed in the previous sprint.
    Completed
    Indicates the amount of work (in story points) that was completed in the previous sprint.
    Stories Missing Estimates
    Indicates the total number of stories in the previous sprint that were missing estimates.

    Data visualizations

    If you are upgrading from version 1.0.2 or earlier of Performance Analytics Content Pack for Essential SAFe, then install this dashboard from Solution Library to upgrade its layout and access the Sprint Burnup report. For more information, see Using Solution Library for Essential SAFe dashboards.

    Title Type Description

    Sprint Burndown

    Line chart

    Shows the scope and rate of scope change, the ideal rate for work completion, and the actual rate of work completion. Analyze the burndown trends and accordingly plan the workload for an upcoming sprint.

    The Sprint Burndown report comprises the following series that can be hidden or displayed based on your preference:
    • Scope: Indicates the amount of work that is planned for the sprint.
    • Ideal Burndown: Indicates how the team needs to progress on stories to complete the sprint on time.
    • Remaining: Indicates the amount of work left for completion in the sprint.

      If Remaining is above the Ideal Burndown, it implies that there is more work left than originally estimated. The team is running behind the schedule of the sprint.

      If the Remaining is below Ideal Burndown, it implies that there is less work left than originally estimated. The team is running ahead of the schedule of the sprint.

    Analyze the burndown trends and accordingly plan the workload for an upcoming sprint.

    Sprint Burnup

    		 Line chart

    Shows the previous sprint burnup trend indicating scope changes. Analyze future changes the trend of team's work completion.

    The Sprint Burnup report comprises the following series that can be hidden or displayed based on your preference:
    • Scope: Indicates the amount of work that is planned for the sprint.
    • Completed: Indicates the amount of work completed in the sprint.

    You can customize the Burnup and Burndown reports. For more information, see Customizing Essential SAFe dashboard reports.