Jira is where your teams plan and track work. Exentras reads that work and tells PMO and delivery leaders which projects are at risk, why, and what to report this week.
Exentras is not a Jira alternative; it is a software delivery intelligence layer above Jira. Jira tracks issues, sprints and boards. Exentras reads your Jira projects and issues and turns them into portfolio risk scores, delivery forecasts, team capacity and weekly executive briefs, without changing how teams work in Jira.
| Area | Jira | Exentras |
|---|---|---|
| Role | Where teams plan, track and complete work | A read-only layer that explains delivery risk across Jira projects |
| Main question answered | What is the status of each issue and sprint? | Which projects will slip, and why? |
| Project risk | Status, flags and due dates kept up to date by hand | A 0–100 risk score from overload, blocked work, delay and activity, with every input shown |
| Delivery forecast | Sprint and velocity reports per board | A delivery outlook per project, plus a reliability rating based on planning-data quality |
| Team capacity | Issues assigned to each person | Capacity per team member, adjusted for approved leave |
| Portfolio reporting | Dashboards and JQL filters you build and maintain | Projects ranked by risk, plus a weekly executive brief written for you |
How the Jira connection works and what it syncs
Guide: portfolio reporting in Jira, and what dashboards miss
Planning sprints, managing backlogs, tracking issues and running day-to-day team work. Exentras does not replace any of it.
Leadership keeps asking which projects are at risk, status reports take hours to compile from Jira dashboards, or overload and blocked work only show up after a deadline slips.
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No. Exentras works alongside Jira. Teams keep planning and tracking work in Jira; Exentras reads that data and adds portfolio risk, delivery forecasts, team capacity and executive reporting.
No. The connection is read-only: Exentras reads projects and issues and never creates or edits anything in Jira.
Exentras connects to Jira Cloud sites (your-company.atlassian.net) with an API token, and keeps data current with scheduled syncs.
Dashboards show the status people enter. Exentras scores risk from the underlying signals, such as overloaded assignees, blocked work and slipping due dates, explains each score, and writes the weekly brief, so leaders see trouble before it is reported.