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title: Plan a SAFe program increment
description: Plan your SAFe program increments \(PIs\) and track the progress of stories and features in an interactive planning board.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/it-business-management/scaled-agile-framework-safe/perform-bigroom-planning.html
release: australia
product: Scaled Agile Framework \(SAFe\)
classification: scaled-agile-framework-safe
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [SAFe PI planning board, SAFe Board — ART level, Essential SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework \(SAFe\), Strategic Portfolio Management]
---

# Plan a SAFe program increment

Plan your SAFe program increments \(PIs\) and track the progress of stories and features in an interactive planning board.

## Before you begin

Roles required:

-   safe\_scrum\_user to view the Planning tab
-   safe\_story\_creator to create stories

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Scaled Agile Framework \(SAFe\)** > **SAFe Board**.

2.  Click **Planning**.

3.  From the list on the top-left of the screen, select **ART** and select your agile release train.

4.  From the PI list, select a PI.

5.  Select the **Stories** tab.

6.  Assign stories to teams and sprints.

    1.  Click the feature backlog icon \(\[Omitted image "backlog.png"\] Alt text: Backlog icon\).

    2.  Add a new story to this feature by clicking **Create Story** in the backlog pane.

    3.  Drag a story card from the feature backlog pane and drop it in the required sprint or Backlog lane of the team.

    You can reschedule the stories across teams and sprints by rearranging the story cards.

    -   If you move the story card to a team's backlog, the **SAFe team** field is updated accordingly.
    -   If you plan the story card into a sprint, the **SAFe team** and the **SAFe sprint** fields of the story are updated accordingly.

        The sprint capacity bar below the sprint name fills up depending on the stories that are scheduled for it.

7.  Add dependencies between the planned stories.

    Dependencies that you add between stories automatically apply to the features of the stories.

    Click the dependencies icon to show or hide dependencies between the stories.

    For more information on story dependencies, see [Add dependencies to your SAFe stories](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/scaled-agile-framework-safe/add-dependencies-safe-stories.md).

8.  Update the group capacity of a team's sprint by clicking the sprint name.

    Group capacity is the projected capacity of the group, in story points, for each sprint. If the group capacity of a sprint is zero, you can't view the details of the sprint load and capacity.

    **Note:** You can update the sprint details only if you have the safe\_scrum\_master role.


**Parent Topic:**[SAFe PI planning board](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/scaled-agile-framework-safe/safe-pi-planning-board.md)