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Savah

DESIGN
Velocity0.0

A SAFe planning tool steadily widening from boards into analytics and resourcing

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◆Current state
Savah is a Program Increment / SAFe planning tool built around the Program Board. Recent work pushes past board mechanics into configurability (custom fields, screen layouts), a dedicated reporting Dashboard, dependency health tracking, and team capacity planning.
◆Where it's heading
The arc is toward a more complete enterprise-agile platform: not just visualizing PI work but configuring it to a team's model, reporting on it, and planning resources against it. Each release fills a gap a SAFe coach would otherwise solve with spreadsheets.
◆Prediction
Expect continued depth on reporting and resource planning — likely more dashboard widgets and capacity/forecasting refinements that build on the recently shipped Dashboard module.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    You can now define custom fields for your work items and control which fields show up on each screen.

    Custom fields and per-screen field layouts let teams shape work items to their own process — a configurability step that moves Savah from a fixed schema toward one teams can mold. Fits the broader push to make the board match how each team actually works.

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  2. 2mo ago

    Dependencies: clearer health signals, due dates, and stronger PI Board filtering

    Dependencies gain due dates, overdue detection, and clearer PI Board filtering. Incremental, but it sharpens one of the harder parts of cross-team planning — keeping dependencies visible and actionable rather than buried.

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  3. 3mo ago

    Introducing the Dashboard & customizable PI Board reporting

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    The Dashboard module adds a reporting surface the product didn't have before — multi-tab dashboards and configurable tiles for PI and program analytics. It marks a shift from executing plans to measuring them.

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  4. 5mo ago

    New: Team Capacity Management at Program Board

    Team Capacity Management brings sprint- and individual-level capacity visibility into the Program Board. A meaningful planning addition that complements the later Dashboard work, though it operates within the existing PI model rather than redefining it.

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  5. 11mo ago

    New: RICE Prioritization Method for Backlogs

    RICE scoring joins WSJF as a backlog prioritization option, with automatic top-10 calculation. A solid addition that broadens the prioritization toolkit without changing the planning model.

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  6. 1y ago

    Introducing Objective and Risk on the Program Board

    Objectives and Risks become editable directly from the ART Program Board instead of requiring a switch to their own boards. A UX consolidation that reduces context-switching during PI planning.

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