Why It’s Critical to Connect Development Work to Project Work

Software development teams often live in tools like Azure DevOps or Jira, while project managers, finance teams, and executives rely on project management platforms for visibility, time tracking, and reporting. When these two worlds remain siloed, the result is duplicate data entry, missing context, and costly blind spots.

The solution isn’t to force dev teams into a new tool or to ask PMs to constantly “chase down updates.” It’s to connect the two worlds directly—and bidirectionally.

Why the connection matters

1. Accurate time tracking and billing
Dev teams already log work against tasks, stories, or epics. If that effort data stays trapped inside a dev tool, finance and project managers have to re-enter it manually or make assumptions. By syncing development activity into project time tracking, organizations gain real-time visibility into billable hours, utilization, and cost recovery—without extra administrative burden.

2. Unified collaboration and progress tracking
Project managers need to see how development work fits into the bigger picture of projects, programs, and portfolios. Developers need to stay focused in the system they know best. A live connection allows each side to work in their preferred environment while still seeing accurate progress, status changes, and updates—reducing meetings, emails, and “status check” pings.

3. Better forecasting and capacity planning
Without connected data, it’s nearly impossible to understand true resource availability. By rolling development work into portfolio-level reporting, leaders can forecast capacity more accurately, balance workloads, and assign the right resources to the right projects at the right time.

4. Real-time data for confident decisions
Executives and PMOs depend on consolidated dashboards for budgets, timelines, and delivery. With disconnected tools, project managers may spend 12–30 hours per month reconciling reports manually. With bi-directional integrations, those updates happen instantly—giving leaders a real-time view of project health, risks, and outcomes.

5. Faster delivery, less overhead
Ultimately, every manual step slows delivery. When data flows freely between dev tools and project management systems, teams eliminate duplicate entry, reduce errors, and deliver work up to 20–30% faster—while giving everyone from engineers to executives the information they need in real time.


Why Project Insight is key

1. Time tracking without duplicate entry
With Project Insight’s integration, time logged in DevOps or Jira automatically syncs into PI’s timesheets. Teams only log once, but billing, payroll, and utilization reports stay accurate across the organization.

2. Collaboration across technical and non-technical teams
Updates made in Jira or DevOps flow into PI’s project plans, while PI assignments and schedules can flow back to the dev tools. Each team sees the same progress without switching systems.

3. Forecasting powered by connected data
Capacity reports in PI factor in development tasks alongside other project work. Leaders see a complete view of team availability, making it easier to balance workloads and plan confidently.

4. Real-time visibility for executives
Project Insight rolls dev activity into program and portfolio dashboards instantly. Executives no longer wait for manual rollups—they can track budgets, risks, and delivery in real time.

5. Speed through automation
By eliminating manual updates, PI integrations free up project managers from hours of reconciliation each month. Projects move faster, resources are better aligned, and delivery becomes more predictable.


The bottom line: if your dev work isn’t connected to your project work, you’re missing the visibility, efficiency, and accuracy that drive confident decision-making. With Project Insight, you can bridge that gap and gain a complete and dynamic picture of org-wide work.


Ready to see how Project Insight can unify your dev tools and project work?
Schedule a demo today and discover how to gain real-time visibility across your teams without changing the way they work.