Documents What is a Portfolio Kanban Board? A Portfolio Kanban board is a visual management method used to track and manage work as it progresses through various stages of a delivery process. Portfolio Kanban boards in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) help organizations manage their Agile portfolio effectively, align work with strategic objectives, and maximize the […]

What are Outcome Groups? The Outcome Groups feature in Kiplot enables your organization to categorize outcomes based on its specific requirements. It’s a simple feature designed to help with visual categorization. For example, if you have several outcomes associated with Financing, you can add them to an outcome group to get a view like in

What is Jira? Jira is a popular project management tool developed by Atlassian, widely used for issue tracking, project management, and agile software development. It provides a flexible platform that helps teams plan, track, and manage their work. As Jira is an extremely flexible system we’ve deliberately designed Kiplot to minimise the Jira configuration required

Only Users who have Kiplot Administration permissions can make changes to the Time Tracking Configuration What is Time Tracking? Time tracking or timesheeting refers to the process of recording the amount of time teams spend on tasks, enabling organizations to measure actual work against forecast. This data is critical to distinguishing between capital expenditures (CapEx)

What are Timesheet Approvals? Timesheet Approvals is the process of which an employee’s tracked hours are reviewed and ‘approved’ by a Supervisor or Manager before being processed for payroll or billing purposes. Timesheet Approvals can play a crucial role in promoting efficiency, accuracy, compliance and accountability in managing employees’ time. Enabling Timesheet Approvals If you

What are Risks and Issues? Risks are potential events or conditions that, if they occur, could have a positive or negative impact on an initiative’s objectives. These are uncertainties that need to be identified, assessed, and managed proactively to ensure success. Issues, on the other hand, are problems or obstacles that have already arisen and

What is an Outcome? An Outcome represents a specific task assigned to a team for delivery, allowing for the assignment of an effort estimate. Typically, there is a many-to-one relationship between outcomes and an initiative, where the initiative serves as the overarching delivery goal to which the outcomes relates to. Where to find Outcomes? The

  Introduction To help you get started with PI Planning, we have created an example schedule for a two day PI planning event. Note that mature organizations with embedded ways of working should not need a full two days, but it’s a good place to start if you’re just getting going. This example schedule should

What is the initiative roadmap? The Initiative Roadmap allows users to create and manage roadmaps through a number of different filters and lenses.   Periods and period groups Your roadmap will display with the time periods and time period groups that you’ve set up in the configuration. In the screenshot below, the time periods have

  What is SSO? Single Sign-On (SSO) is an authentication process that enables users to access multiple applications or systems with a single set of login credentials, simplifying the sign-in process and enhancing user experience. In the context of "Joiners, Movers, Leavers" (JML), SSO plays a crucial role in managing user permissions efficiently, ensuring that