How Kendis Works: Plan, Track and Deliver Agile at Scale
Kendis is a planning and tracking platform for scaled agile that sits on top of Jira and Azure DevOps. Run PI Planning with every team on one live board, then manage objectives, ROAM risks, Solution Trains, roadmaps and Scrum of Scrums in the same place, with Kendis AI turning your board data into planning and PI reports.
- Jira and Azure DevOps, synced both ways
- In the room or remote
- Cloud or self-hosted
Plan and track a Program Increment
From connecting your ALM tool to delivery. Click a step to jump to it.
Connect your ALM tool
Kendis plans on top of the tool your teams already use. Connect Jira or Azure DevOps once and every change syncs both ways in real time, so nobody types anything twice.
- Jira Cloud, Jira Data Center and Jira Server
- Azure DevOps Services and Microsoft TFS 2018 and 2019
- Two-way, real-time sync through webhooks and service hooks
Set up your program board
Create a board for the Program Increment, set the number of sprints and add your teams. Each team gets its own colour badge and swimlane, connected to its sprints in Jira or iterations in Azure DevOps.
- Flexible number of sprints per PI
- Teams with colour badges and their own swimlanes
- Swimlanes mapped to Jira sprints or Azure DevOps iterations
Prepare features for the PI
Bring the features you want to plan onto the board with a filter, a Jira JQL query or an Azure DevOps query. Rank them with WSJF on a pre-planning Kanban and set each team's capacity before the event.
- Features from a filter, JQL or an Azure DevOps query
- WSJF prioritisation on a pre-planning Kanban
- Team capacity per iteration
Run PI Planning
With features ranked and swimlanes connected, the teams plan. They write stories for each feature, place them in sprints, draw dependencies between teams, set PI objectives and ROAM the risks, in the room or remote.
- Stories created in Jira or Azure DevOps as teams plan
- Cross-team dependencies drawn on the board
- PI objectives, ROAM risks and the confidence vote
Review the plan in one click
The Birdseye view gives three levels of overview, so you can review each team's work sprint by sprint, or see when every feature will be delivered in the PI.
- Three levels of overview
- Each team's plan sprint by sprint
- Feature delivery across the whole PI
Lock the plan as a baseline
When planning ends, switch the board to Tracking. Kendis takes a snapshot of the plan, so during execution you can compare what changed and go back in time to see what was originally planned.
- A snapshot of the plan when PI Planning ends
- Compare the current plan with the original
- Scope changes visible from day one
Track the PI to delivery
Analytics show which teams are delivering to their original plan, which features have missed their delivery window and which dependencies are still unresolved, all from live Jira or Azure DevOps data.
- Delivery against the original plan, per team
- Features that missed their delivery window
- Unresolved dependencies and flow metrics
Everything you need to plan and track agile at scale
Objectives, risks, Solution Trains, roadmaps, Scrum of Scrums and AI reports, on the same live data.
Objectives and OKRs
Set organisational objectives, link them to strategic themes, and cascade them to programs and teams. Key Results link directly to the features and stories on your board, with business value planned and achieved.
- Strategic themes, objectives and Key Results
- PI objectives with planned and achieved business value
- Key Results linked to the work that delivers them
ROAM risk management
Raise risks during planning and ROAM each one on a shared board: Resolved, Owned, Accepted or Mitigated. Rate probability and impact, add mitigation actions, and link every risk to the features it threatens.
- Shared ROAM board and risk register
- Probability, impact and mitigation actions
- Risks linked to features and stories on the board
Solution Trains
A solution board brings every Agile Release Train onto one board, with one swimlane per ART. Cross-ART dependencies, capability progress, objectives, risks and milestones are visible in one place.
- Up to 30 PI boards on one solution board
- Jira and Azure DevOps boards side by side
- Cross-ART dependencies and capability progress
Scrum of Scrums
Run your Scrum of Scrums from the same board. Scrum Masters record highlights, impediments, progress updates and action points in one place, with reminders for each team.
- Highlights and impediments per team
- Progress updates and action points
- Reminders and virtual room links
AI insights and PI reports
Kendis AI, called Charlie, reads your real board data, so there is no prompt writing. It drafts PI objectives, summarises dependencies and risks, and builds the End of PI Planning report and the End of Increment report for leadership.
- PI objectives generated from planned work
- End of PI Planning report with a health score
- End of Increment report: delivered, missed and business value
Run your next two PI Planning events free
Kendis is a PI Planning and tracking platform that sits on top of Jira and Azure DevOps. The free trial runs for six months, long enough to plan and track two full PIs with your real backlog before anyone has to approve a budget.
One trial per organisation that has not used Kendis in the last twelve months. After the trial, Premium Cloud is $14 per user per month billed annually, or $16 monthly, and you license only the people who plan. See pricing and the free trial terms.
- 6 months free, no credit card
- Choose EU hosting (OVHcloud, Frankfurt) or US hosting (AWS)
- Two-way sync with Jira Cloud, Jira Data Center and Azure DevOps
- Planning board, dependencies, PI objectives, ROAM risks, solution boards
- ISO/IEC 27001 certified, GDPR compliant, DORA Schedule available
- No user caps and no setup costs during the trial
Frequently asked questions
What teams ask about getting started with Kendis.
Connecting Jira or Azure DevOps takes an admin a few minutes: add the URL and a token, test the connection and load the work. Setting up the board, teams and sprints follows in the same session.
No. Features, stories, sprints and dependency links stay in Jira or Azure DevOps. Kendis adds the cross-team planning layer and syncs every change both ways.
Yes. Kendis supports co-located, hybrid and fully remote PI Planning on one live board, with a digital agenda and virtual breakouts.
Switch the board to Tracking. Kendis snapshots the plan, then shows delivery against it: features that slipped, unresolved dependencies, scope changes and flow metrics.
No. PI Planning is the core, and the same platform manages objectives and OKRs, ROAM risks, Solution Trains, roadmaps and Scrum of Scrums, with Kendis AI for planning and PI reports.
Kendis AI, called Charlie, reads your board data. It drafts PI objectives from planned work, summarises dependencies and risks, and builds the End of PI Planning report and the End of Increment report.
Yes. Kendis is free for six months with no credit card, long enough to plan and track two full PIs with your real backlog.