Project Portfolio Management (PPM) has been an important topic amongst Jira users for as long as any of us — the Atlassian Community Champions who lead this chapter — can remember.
In fact, in the first-ever meet-up of Program/Project Masters several Jira Plans pros helped us grasp ways of working with Plans, but there were a number of questions from the audience about the significant differences between Plans, and some of the popular project portfolio management add-ons from the Atlassian Marketplace.
Well, we heard you!
For our next event, we're inviting experts who work for some of the companies that make some of the popular PPM add-ons to chat with us about the essential differences as they seem them.
Plus, one of the Atlassian Community Champions who lead the chapter and is familiar with several of these tools will represent a more neutral perspective.
Speakers are still being determined, but we plan to have a representatives from:
Atlassian > Jira Plans
Appfire > Big Picture
Tempo > Structure
Deiser > Projectrak
Trundl > Simple Portfolio Management
An Atlassian Community Champion from Program/Project Masters > PPM on Jira Pro who's neutral about tooling
Our panelists will take questions from our moderators and from the audience. Those questions will not be rehearsed—our panelists will hear them when you do.
And each panelist will need to abide by a strict one or two minute max response time, depending on the question.
There will be no presentation or demos this time around — just Qs & As — but we are planning a PPM focused version of Apptoberfest 2026 (happens every October) where each vendor will be allowed to give a brief presentation/demo that shows off their product's advantages.
As always, everyone who RSVP's will have access to the event recording. So, sign-up today even if you aren't free at the appointed day/time.
Agenda
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Speakers
Phil Heijkoop - Mokkapi (Founder (Mokkapi) & Atlassian Community Champion (Program/Project Masters))
Phil is a results-driven executive with proven success in strategic leadership, business transformation, and P&L management. His core competency is optimizing operational efficiency, driving revenue growth, and building high-performing teams.
He's also a veteran of the Atlassian Ecosystem, most recently as the Global Head of Agile Practices at Adaptavist and part of the Atlassian Co…
Zoltan Szalas - Appfire (VP Product & Growth)
I lead product management for Appfire’s portfolio of PPM & Agile suite, as well as the Growth function. Appfire builds solutions that extend and enhance core technology work platforms, including Atlassian, Microsoft Azure, Monday.com and Salesforce. With over 200,00 active installations worldwide, across solutions areas that include ITSM, automa…
Leo Diaz - Deiser (Head of Products / COO)
For the last 10 years, Leo has gone from being a dedicated Atlassian Consultant, passionately focused on helping different teams and companies to get the bests from their software tools, to nowadays, being the Head of Product in Deiser, where he shares all of his experience and guidance with the center of his decisions: a multi-functional team of people, software professionals seeking to be ef…
Sajit Nair - Trundl (Director - Products and Agile Practices)
Sajit is an agile consultant who loves to work with technical teams to solve complex problems and deliver quality solutions. He believes in empathy and prefers openness over flawlessness at work.
A musician and a bike enthusiast at heart, Sajit is forever on an adventure to push the boundaries of creativity and collaboration in the workplace. Sajit co-leads the in-person Delhi-Gur…
Rekha Raghu - Tempo Software (Vice President, Project Portfolio Management Products)
Rekha is currently leading project and portfolio product suite at Tempo, a leading Strategic Portfolio Management Marketplace partner in the Atlassian ecosystem
Previously, she led product development for resource management at Smartsheet. With over 6 years of experience at Smartsheet, she also led core, mobile, and desktop experiences, as well as WorkApps, a no-code app platform, and …
Moderators
Dave Rosenlund - Trundl (Global Director, Products (Trundl) & Atlassian Community Champion (Program/Project Masters))
Dave has been a long-time member of the Atlassian Community.
A Jira and Confluence user and enthusiast for many years, he eventually joined ALM Works, a Platinum Atlassian Marketplace Partner and makers of Structure for Jira, in 2017. He became part of the Tempo team by way of their acquisition of ALM Works in 2022.These days, Dave is the Global Director of Products at Trundl, a …
Heather Ronnebeck - Work Wranglers (Founder | Atlassian Community Champion)
Heather is a self-motivated, detail orientated, PMP-certified project manager with several years of experience managing multiple portfolios and projects ranging from small improvements to large data center builds. She is highly skilled in Waterfall project management principles, project reporting, networking and server administration.
Certification includes Project Management Professio…
Cidoni Brind - Trundl (Director, DevOps & Process Re-engineering (Trundl) | Atlassian Community Champion (Program/Project Masters))
As an Atlassian user and community member for many years, Cidoni has been involved in Atlassian products, customers, and community in various capacities. As Director of Agile and DevOps + PMO and Process at Trundl Inc., a Platinum Atlassian Solution Partner, Cidoni finds satisfaction in helping customers make the best use of Atlassian products to generate the best ROI. Cidoni also heads Trundl…
Hosted By
Cidoni Brind, Director - DevOps, PMO, Process Engineering
As an Atlassian user and community member for many years, Cidoni has been involved in Atlassian products, customers, and community in various capacities. As Director of Agile and DevOps + PMO and Process at Trundl Inc., a Platinum Atlassian Solution Partner, Cidoni finds satisfaction in helping customers make the best use of Atlassian products to generate the best ROI. Cidoni also heads Trundl’s PMO team that manages customer and internal projects.
Cidoni is the Atlassian Community Champion for "Program/Project Masters," an online ACE Chapter dedicated to topics related to PPM and Agile practices.
Dave Rosenlund, Global Director, Products
Dave has been a long-time member of the Atlassian Community.
A Jira and Confluence user and enthusiast for many years, Dave eventually joined ALM Works, a Platinum Atlassian Marketplace Partner and makers of Structure for Jira, in 2017. He became part of the Tempo team by way of their acquisition of ALM Works in 2022.
These days, Dave is the Global Director of Products at Trundl, a Platinum Atlassian Solution Partner where he is responsible for the growth of company's Atlassian Marketplace products business.
In his spare time, Dave is an advisor to Kantega SSO, another Atlassian Marketplace Partner, and he continues his 3+-year journey as an Atlassian Community Leader as the instigator behind "ITSM/ESM Masters," an online ACE Chapter dedicated to topics Jira Service Management related.
Heather Ronnebeck, Sr Project Manager | Tools Administrator
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Global Partner
Atlassian (http://atlassian.com)
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Partner
Trundl Inc. (https://www.trundl.com)
Trundl is a Platinum Enterprise Atlassian Solution Partner, based in Canada (Vancouver), the US, and India. We have deep use case experience deploying, maintaining and scaling Atlassian-based solutions. Trundl is an Atlassian-certified Training Partner, and an AWS Partner. Trundl works with companies of all sizes, including Oracle, Reddit, Medtronic, and General Atomics.
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