How AI enables adaptive strategic portfolio management
Tempo Team
Strategy has to become a living process.
Organizations must adapt constantly – not quarterly or annually. That means portfolio management needs to become adaptive. Success depends on aligning strategy with execution in real time, rebalancing portfolios as conditions shift, and making smarter, data-driven decisions.
Planning leaders are having a hard time keeping pace:
Teams struggle to adapt when priorities change, leading to confusion and burnout
Execution deviates from top-level strategy, resulting in missed targets
Financial and resource data remain siloed, forcing leaders to fly blind.
There are real benefits to solving these problems. Improved financial predictability. Better portfolio ROI. Strategic agility.
So, if planning leaders are falling behind, is AI up to the task of helping out?
Adaptive planning with AI
It’s nice to imagine AI-powered adaptive planning: Your friendly assistant sees a bottleneck, fixes a sync issue, synthesizes data into a personalized report…
We’re not there yet! But while AI has its limitations, we do believe in its ability to support Tempo’s goal of unifying planning, insights, and execution for portfolio leaders.
To do that, we’ve launched and are continuing to develop tools with robust capabilities:
Portfolio planning and tracking across projects, teams, and product lines
Strategy to execution alignment at all levels of the organization
What-if scenario modeling to optimize resources, mitigate risk, and analyze impact of change
Roadmap visualization to communicate plans to stakeholders
Predictive insights and risk detection for faster decision-making
Gen-AI analysis to answer targeted, natural-language questions
The future of leadership with AI
AI empowers leaders by giving them the clarity and speed to apply judgment where it matters most.
Instead of spending hours digging for answers, leaders spend their time making decisions. Instead of arguing over whose spreadsheet is correct, teams align around a single, AI-enhanced source of truth.
Perhaps most importantly: AI creates the conditions for adaptive leadership – leadership that thrives in volatility by embracing change as opportunity, not disruption.
How Rovo agents enable adaptive SPM
Atlassian’s Rovo Agents have already started to unlock the power of AI for Strategic Portfolio Management.
Visibility across the entire portfolio – knowing what's in flight, where resources are allocated, and what outcomes are emerging
Continuous alignment with strategy – ensuring the work being done actually maps to organizational goals
Agility in execution – the ability to replan, rebalance, and rescope when volatility hits
Predictive modeling that forecasts the impact of changes before leaders commit to them
Natural language that allows anyone – not just analysts – to query data and get answers
Sprint Performance Assistant
Gain deeper insights into your current sprint – understand where time is spent, identify recurring carryover issues, and uncover opportunities to optimize delivery.
Structure Formula Assistant
Create precise formulas to add custom columns for project visibility and analysis, simplifying complex calculations and optimizing workflows.
Custom Charts Assistant
Effortlessly add custom charts to any Jira dashboard for enhanced data visualization.
Timesheets Summary Analyzer
Empower project and team leads to leverage Timesheets data to deliver valuable information on time allocation across projects and tasks.
Timesheets Worklog Assistant
Locate and log time in Timesheets with natural-language input, streamlining the time-tracking process in Jira.
Time Insights for Jira
View clear summaries of user time and work. This Agent integrates seamlessly with native Jira worklogs, ensuring a consistent Tempo experience for those who track time in Jira.
Structure View Builder
Customize and tailor views in Structure, displaying the most relevant data for clearer insights and efficient project management.
AI across the adaptive toolkit
Rovo agents are one part of the AI story. When combined with our broader Strategic Collection, AI enhances each component of adaptive portfolio management:
Faster decision-making: Analysis that used to take two weeks can now happen in under an hour
Higher portfolio resilience: Risks surface early, reducing costly surprises
Improved ROI: By continuously reallocating to high-value work, organizations protect and grow returns
More engaged teams: When AI takes on the grunt work of data wrangling, people can focus on strategic conversations
How AI offers an advantage
The volatility of today's markets is not slowing down. Organizations that cling to static planning will find themselves reacting, always a step behind.
Adaptive Strategic Portfolio Management, enhanced by AI, puts planning leaders a step ahead. It equips companies to anticipate, adjust, and act with speed and clarity. With Rovo agents and our Strategy Collection, AI is becoming a practical partner in the work of steering portfolios through uncertainty.
Can AI really augment strategic planning, in its current state? Find out when you try the Tempo Strategy Collection.
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