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Enterprise Portfolio Management for Jira

Capacity planning, dependency management, SAFe guardrails and financial tracking, all running on live Jira data. Your teams keep working in Jira, while the portfolio above them finally keeps pace.

What Kiplot adds on top of Jira

Kiplot is not a reporting layer bolted onto Jira exports. It holds a live two-way connection to your Jira instances, so portfolio planning, funding and governance all run on the same data your delivery teams are updating hour by hour.

Sequence

Order work across teams and value streams, with dependencies showing up as plan inputs rather than as incidents.

Report

Executive-ready portfolio status assembled from live Jira data, instead of from a monthly export and a spreadsheet.

Fund

Budgets, forecasts and actuals tracked across capex and opex, against the epics your teams are actually delivering.

Govern

SAFe guardrails, flow metrics and PI planning measured against what is moving in Jira, not against what the plan assumed.

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Strategy

Strategy

Strategic themes and outcome metrics. Sets the direction for what the portfolio is asked to deliver, and the lens against which it'll be judged at the next review.

Orchestration

Orchestration

Where the EPMO connects the funded work to the delivery teams. Capacity, dependencies, funding, governance, all moving at the same cadence as the agile teams below.

Prioritize
Measure
Steer
Agile Delivery

Agile Delivery

Where the work actually happens. Jira and Azure DevOps stay the team-of-record. Kiplot reads the signal back: what's shipping, what's stuck, what the rolled-up RAG looks like in the next steering review.

Seamless two-way integration

Kiplot reads structure, status and effort out of Jira, and writes funding, capacity and priority decisions back. Dual keying disappears, and both sides stay current without anyone reconciling them by hand.

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Where Jira alone runs out of road at enterprise scale

Jira shows what the work is. It does not show what the work costs.

Portfolio roll-ups rebuilt by hand from Jira exports, stale before the meeting starts.

Dependencies across boards and projects surface as incidents, not as plan inputs.

Several Jira instances inherited through acquisition, with no single view across them.

Capex versus opex on agile work argued ticket-by-ticket at month-end.

SAFe guardrails and PI plans tracked in Confluence, disconnected from live delivery.

Jira data, working as an enterprise portfolio

What sits on top of your Jira instances, from executive reporting through to capex treatment and flow analytics.

Kiplot program status report built from live Jira data
Real-time Jira reporting

See portfolio health at a glance

Portfolio insight straight from Jira with no manual effort. The two-way integration turns live initiative data into executive-ready dashboards, showing progress, risks, dependencies and trends across the portfolio.

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Kiplot complex delivery view showing dependencies, value and capacity together
Optimize capacity allocation

Transform agile planning

Sequence work across teams and get more out of the capacity you already have. Dependencies between value streams surface early enough to manage, rather than arriving as incidents.

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Kiplot financial control view comparing budget, forecast and actuals
Seamless cost tracking with Jira

Regain financial control

Budgets, forecasts and actuals side by side across capital and operational expenditure, so capex and opex treatment stops being reconstructed by hand at month-end.

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Multiple Jira instances connected into one Kiplot portfolio
Enable system consolidation

Integrate multiple Jira instances

Link several Jira instances into a single portfolio view for immediate transparency and alignment. It works as the interim step towards consolidation, or as the long-term operating model.

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Kiplot flow metrics and velocity analytics
Analyze agile metrics

Focus on flow

Flow metrics and velocity tracking show where teams are progressing and where they are not, so improvement is driven by evidence rather than by anecdote.

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See it running on live Jira data

Strategic Planning

Connect strategy to execution and prioritize the fastest route to value
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Portfolio AI

AI-powered insights to optimize portfolio decisions and predict risks
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Financial Control

Real-time budget tracking, cost optimization, and ROI analysis
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Capacity Planning

Optimize resource allocation and balance team workloads effectively
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Delivery Center

Centralized hub for agile execution and cross-team collaboration
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Reporting & Analytics

Real-time dashboards and predictive analytics for data-driven decisions
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Customer Case Studies


Profit growth in 3 years
200+
Initiatives unified
1
Unified portfolio view

RAKBANK strengthened its strategic portfolio management capability to increase delivery confidence and maintain financial control in a regulated environment.

Kiplot is enabling us to accelerate agile execution while ensuring every initiative has clear accountability, transparent governance, and alignment to our strategic priorities.
24%
ROI increase on delivery
500+
Daily active users
<1yr
Payback period

TSB executed a £100M cost-saving programme by strengthening strategic portfolio management to improve delivery transparency, value alignment, and financial control during its transformation.

Kiplot has been a key enabler to our agile transformation agenda, driving efficiency, productivity and speed. We returned our initial investment in less than 1 year.

Keep your teams in Jira, and give the portfolio above them a system that keeps pace.

Portfolio capabilities, running on your Jira data

Enterprise Roadmap

Strategic objectives wired into live delivery timelines. Portfolio leaders read intake-to-outcome on one surface.

Lifecycle Governance

Govern every initiative across its full lifecycle, from intake to closure, with consistent stage gates, configurable approvals, and live portfolio visibility.

Resource Capacity

Capacity across every initiative in one view. Overcommitment surfaces before the next PI, not after the next slipped milestone.

Risk & Issue Management

Surface risks and issues across initiatives, programs, and portfolios in one place, with AI-assisted early warning to keep delivery on strategy.

OKRs

Every funded initiative wires back to the OKR it's serving. Leadership reads outcome contribution, not the count of busy projects.

Prioritization

Consistent scoring against the criteria your investment committee already uses. Priority order reflects the data, not the seniority of the requester.

Budgeting

Business cases, cost forecasts, capex tracking, and benefits realization on one platform. Finance closes the month against live data, not a reconstructed picture.

Benefits & Value Realization

Define, model, and track the value your portfolio is expected to deliver, measuring actual realization against the plan in real time as priorities evolve.

Time Recording

Capture actual effort against portfolio initiatives and feed clean data directly into financial reporting, capacity planning, and delivery performance analysis.

Status Reporting

The Monday morning steering pack assembles itself from live portfolio data. Manual status-pack assembly stops being a Friday afternoon job.

Dashboards & Analytics

Ready-built and fully configurable dashboards. Delivery teams, EPMO, and the C-suite each read the view they need from the same data.

Portfolio AI

AI scans the portfolio continuously. Risks surface against the initiative they sit under, and prioritization moves are recommended against the data, before the next steerco.

Jira Integration

Pull live delivery data from Jira directly into portfolio plans, eliminating dual-entry and connecting team-level execution to strategic outcomes in real time.

Azure DevOps Integration

True bidirectional sync with Azure DevOps. Delivery teams work in ADO; the portfolio surface stays current without anyone re-keying.

Security

ISO 27001-certified infrastructure with enterprise-grade encryption, rigorous access controls, and continuous penetration testing, built for regulated industries from day one.

Portfolio AI, doing the work

Agentic Project Management

Autonomous agents chase actions, draft updates, and keep plans honest, so PMs lead rather than chase.

Surface risks before they become blockers

AI continuously monitors the portfolio for dependency conflicts, capacity overcommitment, and delivery drift, flagging issues before they compound into program-level problems.

Model scenarios in seconds

Run what-if analysis across funding, prioritization, and capacity in seconds. The steerco pack lands with options costed, not just listed.

Reporting that writes itself

AI-generated portfolio narratives and board-ready summaries are produced automatically from live data, cutting reporting cycles from days to minutes.

Integrated where your teams already work

Jira stays the team-of-record, alongside Azure DevOps, your ERP and your finance systems. Kiplot pulls effort, status and structure into the portfolio surface, and pushes funding, capacity and outcome decisions back to where teams can see them.

Why Leading Enterprise Organisations Choose Kiplot

Proven to outperform legacy capabilities in every RFP

AI-Native Architecture, Not Retrofitted

Kiplot was built for the AI era. Agents, automation, and intelligence are part of the core platform, not a separate module sold as an add-on.

AI That Works Because Your Data Does

Real-time integrations and a clean data model make AI features trustworthy from day one. No multi-year data-quality programme required before AI earns its keep.

Immediate Value, No Transformation Programme

Adopt today, not next year. Kiplot delivers impact without the costly, multi-year transformation efforts legacy vendors require.

The Orchestration Layer for Delivery and Finance

A control centre that unites delivery teams and finance around a single portfolio, connecting initiatives, money, and resources in real time.

No-Code, Enterprise-Grade Configuration

Configure views, workflows, and logic without dev cycles or vendor dependence. Enterprise support only when you need it.

Reporting That's Steering Committee-Ready

Board-ready insights on demand. Customisable dashboards, automated outputs to PowerPoint, and governance built in.

Everything you need to deliver your strategy:

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How Kiplot Compares


Agentic AI for portfolio decisionsAI agents that proactively surface risks, recommend reprioritisation, and keep portfolio decisions aligned to strategy — eliminating administration for project managers so they can focus on value creation and delivery.
AI-native platformArchitected with AI at the core. Intelligence is woven into the data model and workflows.
Bring your own LLM (data sovereignty)Use Kiplot's built-in LLM out of the box, or connect your own — Azure OpenAI in your tenant, AWS Bedrock, a private model, or your enterprise-wide AI platform. Your data never leaves your control.
Purpose-built for finance & deliveryOne platform serving the CFO's investment view and the PMO's delivery view from the same data. No reconciliation between finance and delivery systems.
What-if scenario modellingModel the impact of reprioritisation, budget cuts, or capacity shifts across the portfolio before committing to the change.
Hybrid portfolios (waterfall & agile)Manage waterfall, agile, and hybrid initiatives side-by-side in a single portfolio without forcing teams into one methodology.
Resource & capacity planningAllocation workflows and capacity planning at team, skill, role, and individual level. Supports project-led capacity planning (waterfall) as well as team-led (agile).
Workflow & approvalsConfigurable approval flows, stage gates, and governance checkpoints across intake, business case, funding, and delivery.
Enterprise accountingForecast, budget, accrual, CapEx, and depreciation — modelled across the portfolio with the depth an enterprise finance function expects.
Board-ready reporting out of the boxExecutive dashboards and board reports configured on day one — no 3-month Power BI engagement, no external consultants.
Live in weeks, not monthsTypical Kiplot implementations go live in weeks. Incumbent SPM rollouts typically take 6–18 months, requiring heavy support from systems integrators and consulting firms.
No-code, bi-directional Jira / ADO integrationTwo-way sync with Jira and Azure DevOps, configurable in minutes through the UI — no custom code, no separate connector licence, no systems integrator.

Recommended Resources

Practitioner reading on running an enterprise portfolio on top of Jira, scaling agile without losing financial control, and what the next operating state looks like. All in the knowledge center.

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FAQs

Kiplot connects to Jira two-way and turns live delivery data into an enterprise portfolio surface. Epics, features and stories stay where your teams work; Kiplot layers capacity planning, dependency management, lifecycle governance and financial tracking on top of them.

The practical effect is that portfolio reporting, funding decisions and capacity conversations all run on current data, rather than on an export someone assembled last Thursday.

Yes. Kiplot reads structure, status and effort from Jira, and writes portfolio-level decisions back so delivery teams can see funding, priority and capacity context without leaving their tool.

That removes dual keying in both directions. Nobody re-types a status into a portfolio tool, and nobody has to go hunting in a separate system to find out whether their epic is still funded.

It can. Multiple Jira instances connect into one portfolio view, which is the usual position after a few acquisitions. Kiplot gives you immediate transparency across them, whether you are running that as a long-term operating model or as the interim step before a consolidation programme.

Effort captured against Jira work rolls into capex and opex treatment using rules you configure once, rather than being argued ticket-by-ticket at month-end. Budgets, forecasts and actuals sit alongside each other, so finance can close against live data and keep an audit-grade trail.

Kiplot sits above the delivery layer, at the level where guardrails, value stream coordination and PI planning actually get governed. Flow metrics and velocity come from live Jira data, so guardrail monitoring reflects delivery rather than a snapshot.

It works the same way for LeSS, team-of-teams variants and hybrid estates, which matters when different parts of the organization have landed on different frameworks.

No. That is the point of the integration. Jira stays the team-of-record and your existing boards, workflows and conventions carry on unchanged. Kiplot reads what is already there, and the configuration work sits with the portfolio team rather than with delivery.

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