SAFe Board — Team level
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Summary of SAFe Board — Team level
The Team level in the SAFe Board empowers team members to plan, prioritize, and monitor their work efficiently within Agile Release Trains (ARTs). It provides a focused interface for managing team backlogs, sprints, and tasks aligned with SAFe practices, enabling clear visibility and control over sprint progress and story status.
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Key Features
- Backlog Tab: Allows teams to create, prioritize, and organize stories for current and future sprints. Stories can be reordered by drag-and-drop to reflect priority, filtered by features or keywords, and moved between backlog and sprints. Teams can also create and manage sprint lifecycles, including starting, monitoring, and completing sprints.
- Sprint Tracking Tab: Offers multiple views to track sprint progress:
- Story Board: A visual task board that provides an interactive, graphical interface to manage and collaborate on stories. Stories can be moved between lanes to update their states and filtered by search criteria.
- Task Board: Tracks scrum tasks associated with stories, allowing movement across lanes to update task states and filtering capabilities.
- List View: Displays scrum tasks and tests linked to stories, enabling quick creation, tracking of states, assignees, and test results without leaving the current record context.
Practical Usage and Requirements
- To access and see the team backlog on the SAFe Board, ensure that your team is configured as a SAFe Team type and team members have the safescrumuser role.
- The team must be part of an Agile Release Train (ART) to utilize the backlog and sprint management features.
Key Outcomes
- Efficient management and prioritization of team backlog items to support sprint planning and delivery.
- Enhanced visibility into sprint progress through interactive boards that reflect real-time state transitions of stories and tasks.
- Streamlined task and test management to ensure all scrum activities are tracked and completed within sprint timelines.
- Improved collaboration by enabling team members to update and track work items visually and through list views, reducing navigation effort.
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
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.