Need input to implement Agile Kanban + Portfolio NOT for Software Teams

[TechNorris]

Hi,

I am working in Banking Industry, in Risk Management.

I am in charge of a project to use JIRA and Porfolio for JIRA for the whole Risk Sector.

From a Business perspective, I would like to provide Portoflio view to the VP and 4 directors to manage their Roadmaps.  There is 4 departments, each of them having their own Roadmaps wich is a subset of the VP Strategy Roadmap.

I am not sure of the best implementation Strategy... Need your expert advices

Here is my initial idea:

• 4 different JIRA Projects; One for each department
• 1 Portfolio Program for the VP
• 4 Plans: each of them connected to 1 JIRA Project
• 1 More plan connected to the 4 Plans

Each Single Plan would represent a yearly business roadmap for the department and the 5th one would be the MainBusiness roadmap of the VP.

Does it make sense, ss there a better implementation?

 Is it mandatory to have "Releases"? It seems like I need to have them even if it's not software dev.  If I need them, how do we figure what is is representing compared to the Roadmaps?