Comment by Ramone

Well every team is different, so I shouldn't try to say I know the right thing for your team. What you're talking about though is farming out your branch builds/tests/deploys to jenkins, which has nothing to do with CI, but still sounds like your team finds it useful. Carry on if that's the case. While I wouldn't personally solve the problem that way, I'm wrong to suggest that jenkins should only be used for CI.