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Planning Poker Jira Integration

Matt Lewandowski

Matt Lewandowski

Last updated 29/04/20264 min read

Kollabe imports your Jira tickets straight into your planning sessions, so you can estimate without bouncing between tabs. The current round shows up in a side panel with the description, acceptance criteria, and any custom Jira fields you choose to pull in. When the round closes, the winning vote is written back to Jira automatically. If you've been hunting through Jira mid-meeting to remember what a ticket actually says, this is for you.

What you get

📥Ticket import

Search Jira with filters or a JQL query and pull tickets into your planning poker board in one click.

📋Side panel context

Description, assignee, priority, due date, status, and custom fields stay visible while you vote. No more clicking back to the round.

🧩Custom Jira fields

Pick the Jira fields your team actually uses (Acceptance Criteria, Definition of Done, design links) and they show up on every card.

🔁Two-way sync

The winning estimate writes back to your Jira ticket the moment a round is revealed.

See the full ticket while you vote

The round details now sit in a persistent side panel next to the voting cards. Every field that came across from Jira is right there: description, acceptance criteria, assignee, priority, due date, status, and any custom fields you've selected. The video below shows it in action. The side panel was the most asked-for change to our planning poker tool this year. Voting on a ticket nobody fully read is how estimates get sloppy. Putting the full context next to the cards quietly fixes most of that, and the same panel works for tickets imported from Linear, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Projects.

Setting up the integration

  1. Connect to Jira
    Open the Jira button in your space settings and click Setup. You'll be redirected to Jira to grant Kollabe permission to read your tickets, then sent back to Kollabe to finish the setup.Kollabe Jira integration setup screen
  2. Pick your story point field
    Jira lets teams use different fields for story points, so you'll be asked which one to write estimates back to. This step is optional — skip it if you don't want vote-syncing — but most teams want it on.Selecting the Jira story point field to sync
  3. Choose your custom fields
    Tick the custom fields you want imported alongside each ticket. These show up on the round card and in the side panel without any extra setup. You can add or remove fields later as your team decides what's useful.
  4. Search and import tickets
    Use the built-in filters or a custom JQL query to find the tickets you want to estimate. Select what you need, hit import, and they're added to your planning poker board.Importing tickets from Jira into Kollabe

Votes sync back to Jira

When a round is revealed and a winning estimate is set, Kollabe writes that number back to the story point field you picked during setup. A small indicator appears on the winning card to confirm the sync went through, then disappears after a few seconds. Jira vote sync indicator after a round is revealed

Other integrations

If your team isn't on Jira, the same import-and-sync workflow is available for Linear, Azure DevOps, and GitHub Projects. The persistent side panel works across all of them.

No. Any Jira Cloud plan works. You'll need permission to read the projects you want to import from, and write access on the story point field if you want vote-syncing.

Text, user, array, date, and most standard custom field types are supported. If a field appears in your Jira instance, it should show up in the field picker during setup.

Yes. The selection lives in the Jira integration settings on your space and can be updated any time. New imports pick up the change immediately.

The most common cause is that the integration was disconnected or the wrong story point field was selected during setup. Reconnect or reconfigure the field, then re-reveal the round.
Ready to try it? Connect Jira from your space settings or start a planning poker session first and add the integration when you're ready. If you have any questions about how we handle your data, see our privacy policy.