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Add dependencies to your SAFe stories

Set dependencies to your SAFe story by adding prerequisite and dependent stories to it. Using the SAFe Planning board, you can distinguish these dependencies between stories during your big room planning and replan the stories as required.

Before you begin

Role required: safe_story_creator

About this task

Prerequisite stories are the stories that must be completed before the current story can be completed. Dependent stories are the stories that depend on the completion of the current story.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to a story by using any of the following options.
OptionSteps
From the Stories module
  1. Navigate to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) > Stories.
  2. Click the story that you want to add dependencies to.
From the SAFe planning board
  1. Navigate to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) > SAFe Board.
  2. Click Planning.
  3. Select your agile release train (ART) and program increment (PI).
  4. Click the Stories view.
  5. On the planning board, locate and open the story that you want to add dependencies to.

  1. In the Prerequisite Stories or Dependent Stories related lists, add stories according to the dependencies.

  2. Click Save.

  3. Click Update.

    If you're on the SAFe planning board, click the dependencies icon to show or hide dependency lines between stories.

Parent Topic:Define a story in SAFe