What is the purpose of Iteration Goals?

Iteration Goals are a high-level summary of the business and technical goals that an Agile Team agrees to accomplish in an Iteration. They are essential for coordinating an Agile Release Train (ART) as a self-organizing, self-managing team of teams. The purpose of Iteration Goals includes aligning team members to a common purpose and aligning teams to common Program Increment (PI) Objectives. They also manage dependencies and provide transparency and management information. Iteration Goals support the SAFe Core Values of alignment, program execution, and transparency. They help in understanding and maintaining a larger view of what the team intends to accomplish in each iteration and what to present in the upcoming System Demo12.