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Savah

DESIGN
Velocity0.0

Savah expands SAFe PI tooling with dashboards, capacity, and dependency tracking.

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Current state
Savah's recent shipping deepens SAFe/Agile program management — a new Dashboard module with customizable PI Board reporting, Team Capacity Management for sprint-level resource planning, RICE prioritization alongside WSJF, and a substantial Dependencies refresh with due dates, overdue detection, and 'needs attention' flags. Cadence is sparse (a release every one to three months) but each release is sized like a new module.
Where it's heading
The product is evolving from a board-focused PI tool into a broader SAFe platform — Dashboard pulls reporting up to its own surface, Team Capacity adds resource intelligence, and Dependencies, RICE, and Risks make the planning layer more sophisticated. The shape suggests Savah is going after enterprise SAFe customers who otherwise stitch together Jira and spreadsheets.
Prediction
Expect more reporting and analytics expansion, likely cross-PI rollups and exec views connecting Dashboard to Capacity, and continued refinement of the Dependencies and Risks modules. Cross-team coordination at the train level is the next obvious gap.

Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

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

    Substantive Dependencies refresh — due dates, overdue detection, 'needs attention' flags, stat-card filters, exports, and clearer PI Board map filtering. Maturity work for teams managing inter-team dependencies at the train level.

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  2. 2mo ago

    Introducing the Dashboard & customizable PI Board reporting

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    A dedicated Dashboard module plus customizable PI Board reporting moves Savah beyond board-canvas tooling toward a broader analytics platform for SAFe programs. Same PI dataset, multiple audience views, no copy-paste.

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  3. 4mo ago

    New: Team Capacity Management at Program Board

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    Team Capacity Management lands as a new module on the Program Board for sprint-level capacity planning at both team and individual levels, replacing the manual spreadsheets most SAFe programs run on.

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  4. 10mo ago

    New: RICE Prioritization Method for Backlogs

    RICE joins WSJF as a backlog prioritization option, with automatic top-10 feature calculation. A useful addition for teams whose product context fits RICE better than WSJF.

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  5. 1y ago

    Introducing Objective and Risk on the Program Board

    Objectives and Risks are now reachable directly from the top of the ART Program Board instead of requiring a switch between dedicated boards. Workflow tightening for PI planning sessions.

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