Artifact: SWOT Analysis

Overview

A Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats (SWOT) Analysis is recommended in SAFe for evaluating the current state of a portfolio, value stream, or product. To learn more, visit the Scaled Agile Framework.

The SWOT Analysis has a corresponding artifact template. The template looks like this:

< The SWOT analysis is used to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to the current business situation. A SWOT analysis is a great way to uncover the current situation of your value stream, product, or a portfolio. The information from the SWOT analysis below is used to fill-in the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the TOWS strategic options matrix. >

Internal Origin

STRENGTHS

Strength 1
Strength 2
Strength 3
Strength 4
Strength 5

WEAKNESSES

Weakness 1
Weakness 2
Weakness 3
Weakness 4
Weakness 5

External Origin

OPPORTUNITIES

Opportunity 1
Opportunity 2
Opportunity 3
Opportunity 4
Opportunity 5

THREATS

Threat 1
Threat 2
Threat 3
Threat 4
Threat 5

The Solution Intent artifact type defines the following custom attributes:

Owner - The owner of the artifact
Status - The status of the artifact (see States below)
Scope - The scope covered by the matrix (Portfolio, Solution, Program, Team)

The artifact type has this workflow:

Draft - Initial state of the artifact
Under Review - Indicates that the artifact is being reviewed by the Portfolio team
In Playback - Indicates that the artifact is being reviewed with stakeholders and customers for feedback
Approved - Indicates that it is approved by the Portfolio team as well as stakeholders/customers
Rejected - Indicates that the artifact is rejected and no further work will be done
Deprecated - Indicates that the artifact has been deprecated and there may possibly be a newer version of it