Looking Back at the Best of 2025 – And What’s to Come in 2026

2025 was definitely an eventful year for our team at Meisterplan. With so many updates and new features, we have a lot to be proud of! But before we dive headfirst into the new year, we wanted to look back at some of our favorite features from the past twelve months. 

Major Improvements to the Jira Integration

One of our priorities in 2025 was to improve the experience of organizations working with agile teams. That’s why we introduced new and improved functionality for our Jira integrationIntegrationAn integration is a virtual interface that connects different software programs and enables automated data exchange between them. This allows for more efficient processes, better planning, and consistent information.. 

The Task Timeline helps you bridge the planning gap between your teams’ agile work and your portfolio roadmapRoadmapA roadmap is a strategic overview of one or more projects, their progress, milestones, and objectives.. It allows you to visualize tasksTasksSynonym for → ProjectA project is a time-limited undertaking with defined objectives and resources that delivers unique results and often includes complex tasks. from external tools (like Jira) directly in Meisterplan, giving you better visibility without disrupting established workflows.  

You can also use the Jira Connector to automatically import allocationsAllocationAllocating describes the strategic process of identifying the correct resources for projects or individual tasks and assigning them accordingly., actual time worked, and milestonesMilestoneIn project portfolio management, a milestone marks an important point in a project’s progress that requires monitoring or decision-making. Milestones indicate project phases, marking the completion of objectives or the… from Jira into Meisterplan.  

Teams can keep working in their preferred tools without interruption, while portfolio coordinators get the information they need without getting lost in the details. A win-win scenarioScenarioIn project portfolio management (PPM), scenarios are potential ways that your portfolio can look, based on a set of well-defined assumptions and portfolio decisions. Scenario planning is used to forecast…!  

Export Project Data to Microsoft PowerPoint

Preparing presentations on your projectProjectA project is a time-limited undertaking with defined objectives and resources that delivers unique results and often includes complex tasks. status and progress doesn’t have to be time-consuming. Who wants to spend ages manually copying data into slides? Not us!  

With our PowerPoint export function, you can export all your project information into a predefined template with just a click of a button.  

We’ll provide you with a default template to get started, but you can upload up to ten templates of your own. Customize the slides with your corporate design and organize the exported data in a way that works best for your presentations.  

The Beta Program

Want early access to new features before they’re officially released? Our beta program gives you a sneak peek at what’s coming and the chance to help shape it.  

We welcome feedback from beta users so that we can make our software exactly what our customers need.  

At the moment, we have two live beta features: 

• Allocations by Project Phase: Divide a projectProjectA project is a time-limited undertaking with defined objectives and resources that delivers unique results and often includes complex tasks.’s allocationsAllocationAllocating describes the strategic process of identifying the correct resources for projects or individual tasks and assigning them accordingly. into phases that are linked to milestonesMilestoneIn project portfolio management, a milestone marks an important point in a project’s progress that requires monitoring or decision-making. Milestones indicate project phases, marking the completion of objectives or the….  
• Modernized and Improved Portfolio Designer: The same Portfolio Designer that you know and love, now with a sleeker look and a more intuitive interface.  

More 2025 Releases

In this blog post, we briefly highlighted three of our most exciting updates. To see how they work in action, and to learn about other great features we’ve released throughout the year, check out our two Half-Year Release Highlight videos.  

What to Look Forward to in 2026

This year, we’re working on implementing Meisterplan AI to further simplify your planning. Starting as part of the beta program, we’ll roll out new functionality such as AI projectProjectA project is a time-limited undertaking with defined objectives and resources that delivers unique results and often includes complex tasks. summaries and AI-optimized scenariosScenarioIn project portfolio management (PPM), scenarios are potential ways that your portfolio can look, based on a set of well-defined assumptions and portfolio decisions. Scenario planning is used to forecast….  

We’re also expanding our range of out-of-the-box integrationsIntegrationAn integration is a virtual interface that connects different software programs and enables automated data exchange between them. This allows for more efficient processes, better planning, and consistent information. beyond the existing Jira Connector. Synchronizing data from your project managementProject ManagementProject management is the planning, steering, and monitoring of projects to achieve specific objectives within a given timeframe and budget. tools will soon be easier than ever before.