Various Artifacts in SAFe Agile

In the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), artifacts are essential physical or digital representations of work, value, or knowledge used to manage the flow of value through the enterprise. They are the critical outputs that ensure transparency, alignment, and communication across all four levels of the framework.

Key SAFe Artifacts by Level

Portfolio Level: Strategic Alignment

Artifacts at this level connect the enterprise's strategy to the execution of work, ensuring all investments are aligned.

• Strategic Themes: High-level, differentiating business objectives that connect the portfolio to the enterprise's mission.
• Portfolio Backlog: The highest-level backlog in SAFe, which contains the future epics needed to support strategic themes.
• Portfolio Kanban: A visual method to visualize and manage the flow of portfolio epics from conception to execution.
• Portfolio Vision: A description of the future state of the portfolio’s value streams and solutions.

Large Solution Level: Solution Orchestration

Used in massive, complex solutions that require multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs).

• Solution Backlog: The holding place for future capabilities and features.
• Solution Kanban: Visualizes and manages the flow of solution capabilities.
• Solution Intent: The centralized repository for all solution-related architectural and technical decisions.

Program (ART) Level: Program-Level Flow

These artifacts coordinate multiple teams on an Agile Release Train (ART) during a Program Increment (PI).

• Program Backlog: A holding area for upcoming features intended to address customer needs.
• Program Increment (PI) Objectives: Summarize the business and technical goals for the upcoming PI.
• ART Kanban: Visualizes and manages the flow of program-level features.
• Features: Services that fulfill a stakeholder need, sized to be delivered by a single ART within a PI.

Team Level: Iterative Execution

Artifacts at the team level are used to manage the daily and iterative work of individual Agile Teams.

• Team Backlog: Contains all the user stories and enabler stories for the team, prioritizing what needs to be delivered.
• Sprint/Iteration Goals: The high-level objective for the team in the current sprint, providing focus.
• Team Kanban: A visual system to manage and limit work in progress at the team level.
• Stories: The primary artifact that defines a functional or enabler requirement from a user’s perspective.
• Definition of Done (DoD): A shared understanding of what it means for a story to be complete and ready for deployment.

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