SAFe Feature Dashboard

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Updated March 12, 2026

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Summary of SAFe Feature Dashboard

The SAFe Feature Dashboard offers a detailed visualization of the scope changes and progress of stories within a feature over time. It helps users, particularly SAFe ART and Scrum users, to assess the completion status and timeline of features effectively.

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Key Features

Visualization Widgets: Key indicators include total stories, scope in story points, stories missing estimates, and blocked work, allowing for quick insights into feature status.
Data Visualizations: The dashboard provides essential charts such as Feature Burnup and Story Cycle Time for tracking progress and estimating completion timelines.
Feature Burnup Report: A line chart showing scope changes and completion trends, with the ability to forecast future scope and completion based on historical data.
Story Cycle Time Chart: A bubble chart that visualizes the time taken for stories to progress to completion, highlighting areas for potential process improvement.

Key Outcomes

By utilizing the SAFe Feature Dashboard, users can:

Monitor work completion and evaluate the likelihood of meeting deadlines.
Identify potential scope increases that may impact delivery timelines.
Analyze story performance and cycle times to enhance workflow efficiency.
Make informed decisions based on visualized data trends and forecasts.

Overall, the dashboard is a powerful tool for managing and optimizing feature development in a SAFe environment.

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.

SAFe Feature Summary — Figure 1. Feature Summary tab

SAFe Feature Cycle Time tab — Figure 2. Cycle Time tab

End user and roles

Table 1. End user goal with required role
End user and goal	Required role
SAFe ART user: View the amount of work that has been completed in a feature. Gauge whether the feature can be completed on time.	SAFe_scrum_user

Indicators

SAFe: Sum of story points of all stories in the feature: Generates the completed line in the Feature Burnup report.
SAFe: Sum of story points of completed stories in feature: Generates the scope line in the Feature Burnup report.

Widgets

Stories: Indicates the total number of stories in the feature.
Scope: Indicates the scope of the feature which is in story points. This widget lets you see at a glance how much work must be completed in a feature.
Stories Missing Estimates: Indicates the number of stories in the feature that are missing estimates.
Blocked Work: Indicates the amount of work (in story points) in the feature that is blocked.

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 following visualizations:

Feature Burnup
Story Cycle Time

For more information, see Using Solution Library for Essential SAFe dashboards.

Table 2. Work item progress
Title	Type	Description
Stories By State	Bar chart	At a single glance, understand the overall progress of a feature seeing all of its stories grouped by state.
Feature Burnup	Line chart	Indicates the scope changes, if any, and trends of those scope changes. You can estimate when the feature is likely to be completed. The Feature Burnup report comprises the following series that can be hidden or displayed based on your preference: Scope: Indicates the size of the feature, as the sum of story points defined in this feature. Scope Forecast: Predicts the possibility of scope change for the future dates, which is based on historical data. Completed: Indicates the amount of work (in story points) in the feature that is complete. Completed Forecast: Predicts the burnup for the future dates. It indicates whether you can complete the feature on time. This prediction is based on historical data. Note: The point at which the Completed Forecast series intersects with or crosses the Scope Forecast series is a predictor for when the feature 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.

Table 3. Cycle Time
Title	Type	Description
Story Cycle Time	Bubble chart	Identify the time taken for each story in the feature 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: Story points Date on which the story is moved to completion Total cycle time (in days) of the story Number of days that the story was in the Work in progress state Number of days that the story was in the Ready for testing state Number of days that the story was in the Testing state 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 report. For more information, see Customizing Essential SAFe dashboard reports.